Dolpo - A Concise Grammar and Lexicon of a Tibetic Language of the Himalayas

An invaluable resource about the Tibetic language of Dolpo. Dolpo is a Tibetic language spoken in the Dolpo region of northwestern Nepal in the Himalayas. The introductory chapters of Dolpo are devoted to the geographical, anthropological, and linguistic characteristics of the language and its phonology. The core of the book is a description of the main grammatical categories of Dolpo, focusing on the issue of word order, the system of case markers, nouns and pronouns, verbs, evidential and epistemic categories, the system of verb tenses and aspects, negation, interrogative sentences, clitics and compound sentences. The book includes a Dolpo-Tibetan-English lexicon containing approximately 1,000 frequently used vocabulary items.