Dissertation Research: The Dolakhali Dialect and the Development of Newari Morphosyntax

多拉卡里语是尼瓦里语的一种迄今为止鲜为人知的方言，尼瓦里语是尼泊尔的一种藏缅语。它与更为人所知的同一种语言的加德满都方言密切相关，但它有明显不同的动词形态，这两种方言是相互无法理解的。该项目的成果包括多拉卡里语的语法描述和比较研究的数据，该研究将侧重于多拉卡里语和加德满都方言的不同形态句法系统。比较的主要领域是关系从句和名词化的结构，从句链和动词到助动词的语法化，以及有限动词的形态。Dolakhali和加德满都Newari的密切遗传关系，以及可追溯到14世纪的加德满都Newari书面文本的存在，为翔实的历史研究提供了良好的基础，这可以为历史句法的文献体做出贡献。这也可能解决尼瓦里语与尼泊尔其他语言的关系问题，并为未来不同类型语言的跨语言研究提供数据来源。

Dolakhali is a hitherto little known dialect of Newari, a Tibeto- Burman language of Nepal. It is closely related to the better- known Kathmandu dialect of the same language, but it has strikingly different verb morphology, and the two dialects are mutually unintelligible. Products of this project include a grammatical description of Dolakhali and the data for a comparative study that will focus on the divergent morphosyntactic systems of the Dolakhali and Kathmandu dialects. The primary areas for comparison are the structure of relative clauses and nominalizations, clause chains and the grammaticalization of verbs to auxiliaries, and finite verb morphology. The close genetic relationship of Dolakhali and Kathmandu Newari, as well as the existence of written Kathmandu Newari texts dating back to the fourteenth century provide an excellent basis for a well-documented historical study, which can contribute to the body of literature on historical syntax. It may also resolve questions of the relationship of Newari to other languages of Nepal, and it will definitely provide a data source for future cross-linguistic studies on typologically dissimilar languages.