Kristine A. Hildebrandt
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kristine A. Hildebrandt is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0731-3500 | E‑ISSN 2214‑5907
2020 Reported speech in earthquake narratives from six Tibeto-Burman languages Studies in Language 44:2, pp. 461–499 | Article
This paper is an analysis of the use of reported speech in six Tibeto-Burman languages from two closely-related sub-branches (Tamangic and Tibetic). The data come from a set of interview narratives about people’s experiences of the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. The analysis begins with an… read more
2018 Minority language education in Nepal: The view from a Himalayan village Language Problems and Language Planning 42:1, pp. 16–44 | Article
This article, a case study in one group of communities of Nepal, considers minority language education in the face of increasing encroachment of the dominant and national language Nepali. Our over-arching research question asks, in the context of local education, what we can observe about the… read more
2018 Kinship in three Tamangic varieties Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41:1, pp. 1–21 | Article
We examine kinship terms in three closely related Tamangic varieties: Manange, Nar, and Phu. Using Proto-Tamangic and Proto Tibeto-Burman reconstructions, we track cognate forms as well as structural innovations. Our account allows a first examination of lexico-semantic aspects of Phu, an… read more
2013 Converb and aspect-marking polysemy in Nar Responses to Language Endangerment: In honor of Mickey Noonan, Mihas, Elena, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 97–118 | Article
This analysis responds to Michael Noonan’s call to embrace the messiness and complexities of grammar found in natural language use, continuing the tradition of undertaking rich, deep investigations of a critically endangered, under-documented language (Nar, Tibeto-Burman, Nepal). It is an… read more