Visual narratives of sequential images–as found in comics, picture stories, and storyboards–
are often thought to provide a fairly universal and transparent message that requires minimal …

The way we understand a narrative sequence of images may seem effortless, given the
prevalence of comics and picture stories across contemporary society. Yet, visual narrative …

This article argues that the evidential system of Khams Tibetan, a cluster of Tibetic
languages spoken in the south-eastern Tibetosphere, should be considered a verb …

Topographical deixis refers to a variety of spatial-environmental deixis, in which typically
distal reference to entities is made in terms of a set of topographically-anchored referential …

Abstract 'Topographical deixis' refers to a variety of spatial‐environmental deixis in which
typically distal reference to entities is made in terms of a set of topographically‐anchored …

Choswateng Tibetan, spoken in the south-eastern corner of the Khams region, has three
negative prefixes:/ȵi-/,/ma-/, and/ka-/. The first two are derived from two morphemes which …

This book analyses the social, political and religious life of the Hyolmo people of Nepal.
Highlighting patterns of change and adaptation, it addresses the Shamanic-Buddhist …

This paper examines comparability of descriptive grammars across typologically different
languages. Focusing on the Nepal Himalayas, which has high language diversity that …

Northern South Asia is the main home of Indo-European Indic languages, and southern
South Asia is the main home of Dravidian languages, as discussed in other chapters, but …

The very numerous Tibeto-Burman, Austroasiatic and other non-Indic and non-Dravidian
languages of South Asia are mainly spoken in peripheral regions in the north, northeast and …