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A Grammar of Dumi

George van Driem
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Author : George van Driem
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110880915

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The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

A Grammar of Dumi

Netra Mani Rai
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Author : Netra Mani Rai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Dumi language
ISBN : 3862888320

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This study explains a grammatical description of the Dumi language insightfully guided by the framework of functional typological grammar, developed by Talmy Givón (1984-2001). Dumi, a Kirati language of the Rai group is poorly described Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Khotang district of Eastern Nepal. This grammar covers the main areas: phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse analysis. Dumi has 26 consonants together with the glottal stop (?) and seven basic vowel phonemes with length contrast. Dumi is morphologically an ergative-absolutive language which is rich in case system. The nominals in Dumi are inflected for a number of cases. They are marked in two ways: case clitics and postpositions. Dumi has two types of tenses: past and non-past which are morphologically marked. Dumi is one of the agglutinating languages, and hence, morphemes attached to the verb stem: tense, number and person. The verb agreement is triggered by the number, person and honorificity of the nominative subject. It is a left branching and dependent marking language with the basic SOV constituent order that can also be used freely. For topicalization and focusing the constituents may be permuted within the clause. In Dumi, the subordination system includes complement, adverbial, relative and converbal clauses.

A grammar of Yakkha

Diana Schackow
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Author : Diana Schackow
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234111

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A grammar of Yakkha by Diana Schackow Pdf

This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on original fieldwork in the Yakkha community. Its primary source of data is a corpus of 13,000 clauses from narratives and naturally-occurring social interaction which the author recorded and transcribed between 2009 and 2012. Corpus analyses were complemented by targeted elicitation. The grammar is written in a functional-typological framework. It focusses on morphosyntactic and semantic issues, as these present highly complex and comparatively under-researched fields in Kiranti languages. The sequence of the chapters follows the well-established order of phonological, morphological, syntactic and discourse-structural descriptions. These are supplemented by a historical and sociolinguistic introduction as well as an analysis of the complex kinship terminology. Topics such as verbal person marking, argument structure, transitivity, complex predication, grammatical relations, clause linkage, nominalization, and the topography-based orientation system have received in-depth treatment. Wherever possible, the structures found were explained in a historical-comparative perspective in order to shed more light on how their particular properties have emerged.

A Dictionary of Dumi

Netra Mani Rai
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Author : Netra Mani Rai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Dumi language
ISBN : 3862888495

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This trilingual dictionary is based primarily on the author?s years of fieldwork together with numerous discussions and the writer's intuition. It consists of more than five thousand native Dumi words collected from native speakers of the Makpa area. Dumi [dus] is an endangered Kirati language of the Rai group spoken in northern Khotang district in eastern Nepal. It belongs to the east Himalayish sub-branch of the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The population of ethnic Dumi in Nepal according to the 2011 Census is 7,638. Linguistically, Dumi is closely related to other two Kirati languages: Koyee [kkt] and Khaling [klr]. 0The information which we have chosen to include in the dictionary and its organization are as a result of the experience in writing a grammar of Dumi (Rai, 2017). The user of this dictionary is referred to that work (A Grammar of Dumi: A functional-Typological approach), which should be used in conjunction with the present dictionary in order to gain the best understanding of Dumi. Since grammar and dictionary provide the entire view of the language, this dictionary attempts to provide a brief description of the Dumi language and its native speakers.

A Grammar of Kambera

Marian Klamer
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Author : Marian Klamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110805536

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The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

A Grammar of Koyra Chiini

Jeffrey Heath
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Author : Jeffrey Heath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110804850

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A Grammar of Koyra Chiini by Jeffrey Heath Pdf

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

A Grammar of Prinmi

Picus Sizhi Ding
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Author : Picus Sizhi Ding
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004279773

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A Grammar of Prinmi by Picus Sizhi Ding Pdf

A Grammar of Prinmi represents the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Pǔmǐ Nationality and the Zàng Nationality (in Mùlǐ, Sichuan) in southwest China. Prinmi belongs to the Qiangic branch and is closely related to the extinct language of Tangut. Picus Ding examines in the grammar the phonology (both segmental and suprasegmental), morphology, syntax and information structure of Prinmi, with two sample texts and an English-Prinmi glossary provided in appendices. Some noteworthy features of Prinmi include a wealth of clitics (appearing as proclitic, enclitic, mesoclitic or endoclitic), a lexical tone system akin to Japanese, and a collection of existential verbs that discriminates concreteness, animacy, and location.

A Grammar of Sunwar

Dörte Borchers
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Author : Dörte Borchers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004167094

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A Grammar of Sunwar by Dörte Borchers Pdf

This description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is based on extensive field work by the author and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by sections on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the morphology of Sunwar. Verb paradigms, glossed texts, a Sunwar-English glossary and bibliographical references are also presented. Contact between the Sunwar and Nepali languages resulted in language change, most visible in the verbal system, where the older biactantial agreement system typical for Kiranti languages disappeared and suffix conjugations emerged. This book will interest those interested in descriptive linguistics, language change and languages of South Asia.

A Grammar of Kham

David E. Watters
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Author : David E. Watters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781139436083

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A Grammar of Kham by David E. Watters Pdf

First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjectivals. Its verb morphology has implications for the understanding of the history of the entire Tibeto-Burman family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, deals with all major aspects of the language including segmental phonology, tone, word classes, noun phrases, nominalizations, transitivity alterations, tense-aspect-modality, non-declarative speech acts, and complex sentence structure. It provides copious examples throughout the exposition and includes three short native texts and a vocabulary of more than 400 words, many of them reconstructed for Proto-Kham and Proto-Tibeto-Burman.

Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 7 A Grammar of Sunwar

Dörte Borchers
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Author : Dörte Borchers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047433491

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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 7 A Grammar of Sunwar by Dörte Borchers Pdf

This description of Sunwar, spoken in eastern Nepal, offers an overview of the language, the culture of its speakers, a collection of glossed texts and a glossary; and it shows how suffix conjugations developed as the result of language contact.

A Grammar of Jero

Jean Robert Opgenort
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Author : Jean Robert Opgenort
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047415084

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A Grammar of Jero by Jean Robert Opgenort Pdf

This description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the endangered (Tibeto-Burman) Jero language as spoken in eastern Nepal, appears in sequel to the author's 2004 Grammar of Wambule, the language most closely related to Jero. It pictures the complex-pronominalising language of the Jero Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal. With a historical comparative study of the Kiranti languages, the branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family to which both Jero and Wambule belong. An exhaustive and model reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology and linguistic theory. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).

Tone and Inflection

Enrique L. Palancar,Jean Léo Léonard
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Author : Enrique L. Palancar,Jean Léo Léonard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110452754

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Tone and Inflection by Enrique L. Palancar,Jean Léo Léonard Pdf

Tone is about melody and meaning, inflection is about grammar, and this book is about a bit of both. The contributions to this volume study possible and sometimes complex ways in which the tones of a language engage in the expression of grammatical categories. There is a widespread conception that tone is a lexical phenomenon only. This is partly a consequence of the main interest in tone coming from phonology, while the main interest in inflection has stemmed from segmental morphology. Similarly, textbooks on inflection and textbooks on tone give very few examples of the inflectional use of tone, and such examples are often the same ones or too similar. This volume aims to broaden our understanding of the link between tone and inflection by showing that there is more to tone than meets the eye. The book includes general chapters as well as case studies on lesser known languages of Asia, Africa and Papua New Guinea, with a special focus on the Oto-Manguean languages, a large and diverse linguistic stock of Mexico that inspired Kenneth Pike’s 1948 seminal work on tone. Most of the contributions to this volume provide first-hand data from recent fieldwork that stems from important language documentation activities.

Describing Morphosyntax

Thomas E. Payne
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Author : Thomas E. Payne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521588057

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Describing Morphosyntax by Thomas E. Payne Pdf

Of the 6000 languages now spoken throughout the world around 3000 may become extinct during the next century. This guide gives linguists the tools to describe them, syntactically and grammatically, for future reference.

A Grammar of Wambule

Jean Robert Opgenort
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Author : Jean Robert Opgenort
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004138315

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A Grammar of Wambule by Jean Robert Opgenort Pdf

An exhaustive reference work for Wambule/Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, linguistic theory "and" Wambule society and culture, and as such indispensable for any linguistic and anthropological library.

Case and Grammatical Relations

Greville G. Corbett,Michael P. Noonan
Case and Grammatical Relations Book PDF

Author : Greville G. Corbett,Michael P. Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229946

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Case and Grammatical Relations by Greville G. Corbett,Michael P. Noonan Pdf

The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how many cases Russian has and whether Hungarian has a case system at all, the issue of case-combining, the retention of the dative in Swedish dialects, and genitive objects in the languages of Europe. With regard to grammatical relations, topics include the order of obliques in OV and VO languages, the effects of the referential hierarchy on the distribution of grammatical relations, the problem of whether the passive requires a subject category, the relation between subjecthood and definiteness, and the issue of how the loss of case and aspectual systems triggers the use of compensatory mechanisms in heritage Russian.