Reconstructing linguistic history in a dialect continuum: The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan
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Toulmin, Matthew William Stirling
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This study outlines a methodological framework for reconstructing linguistic history within a dialect continuum and applies this methodology to an under-described, controversial, and complex subgroup of New Indo-Aryan (NIA)—the Kamta, Rajbanshi and Northern Deshi Bangla lects (KRNB). ¶ Dialect continua are characterised by non-discrete boundaries between speech communities, and as a result previously divergent lects may undergo common innovations; the result is the familiar picture of...[Show more]
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Date published: | 2006 |
Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/45743 |
DOI: | 10.25911/5d7a2b0c76304 |
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