CONTENTS
Preface vii

Introduction

CHURA MANI BANDHU
The preservation and development of Himalayan languages 1

Contributions

KRISHNA PRASAD CHALISE
The Tamang modality system 11

GEORGE VAN DRIEM
Mahakiranti revisited: Mahakiranti or Newaric? 21

KAREN EBERT
Equivalents of 'conjunctive participles' in Kiranti languages 27

ISAO HONDA
A sketch of Tangbe 49

BRIGITTE HUBER
Tone in Kyirong Tibetan: A conservative phonological development 65

SANG YONG LEE
A sociolinguistic survey of Sherpa 81

P. MADHUBALA
Idioms in Meiteiron 97

N. SUSHAMA MUKHERJI, KARUMURI V. SUBBARAO AND DIMPLE WALIA
Lexical anaphors and blocking effects in Hmar 103

N. PRAMODINI
Terms of address in a situation of change: A sociolinguistic study of Meiteiron 115

BALARAM PRASAIN
Complex predicates: evidence from Bote causatives 123

JAGDISH CHANDER SHARMA
Ergativity in Western Pahari languages 131

RUDRA LAXMI SHRESTHA
Verbal morphology of the Badikhel Pahari dialect of Newar 145

CHUNGKHAM YASHAWANTA SINGH
Inter-borrowing among the Tibeto-Burman languages of North-East India 163

KARUMURI V. SUBBARAO, TH. GEETA DEVI AND TH. SARJU DEVI
Embedded clauses in Manipuri 173

KARUMURI V. SUBBARAO AND GRACIOUS MARY TEMSEN
Wh-question formation in Khasi 197

BRYAN VARENKAMP
A look at -ba in Central Eastern Tamang 219

MARIANNE VOLKART
Types of compounds in Written Tibetan 233

STEPHEN WATTERS
An acoustic look at pitch in Lhomi 249

Research Notes

KARNAKHAR KHATIWADA Pronominalisation in Dhimal 265

RAM RAJ LOHANI
Multidimensional representation of NV complex predicates in Nepali 269

DIPTI PHUKAN PATGIRI
The use of gender in Boro and Rabha 275

LAL RAPACHA
Semantic aspects of Salak(u) in Sunuwar 279

ZHIJING WANG
Type opposition between Tibetan and Chinese 287