I-VIII -- Introduction -- Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world - The study of Himalayan languages -- Descriptive linguistics -- A grammatical comparison of Shina dialects -- Retroflex vowels and other peculiarities in the Kalasha sound system -- Direction and differential dative case marking in Magar -- Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative perspective -- Hidden syntax in Belhare -- On the notion of sentence in Classical Tibetan -- On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives -- Language change -- Preverbal modifiers in Sunwar -- Directional prefixes in Kathmandu Newar -- Grammaticalization of deictic motion verbs in Seke -- "Do" as subordinator in Tshangla -- Morphosyntactic transparency in Bantawa -- Areal semantics - Is there such a thing? -- Shafer's proto-West Bodish hypothesis and the formation of the Tibetan verb paradigms -- Newaric and Mahakiranti -- Subject index -- Language index