Vesalainen Olavi. A Grammar Sketch of Lhomi

SIL International, 2016. — xviii + 328 p.Nowadays the majority of Lhomis live in the northern part of Arun valley of Sankhuwa Sabha district in East Nepal. Their language, Lhomi, is a dialect of the Central Tibetan language. The dialect of Lhomi used in this grammar is that spoken in Chepuwa village.
It is the complex evidentiality strategy and direct evidentials that dominate Lhomi grammar. For example tense may be marked in six different ways and most verbal affixes have multiple grammatical meanings. The so-called honorific system of Lhomi means that many common verb and noun roots have an honorific counterpart, not a grammatical marker as might be expected.
Lhomi is a typical SOV/AOV language which among other things means that internally headed relative clauses are common. Split ergativity is another distinctive grammatical feature. Lhomi also qualifies for a clause chaining language, the relation of chain-medial and chain-final clauses being one of co-subordination.