A Grammar Of Kham

Author : David E. Watters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 54,8 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.

Author : Christina Willis Oko
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004409491

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A Grammar of Darma by Christina Willis Oko Pdf

A Grammar of Darma provides a comprehensive description of this threatened Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India’s Himalayan region. The description is based on a corpus that includes natural discourse and elicited data. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework.

Author : H. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11639803

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A Grammar of the Khassi Language ... by H. Roberts Pdf

Author : H. Roberts
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Grammar of the Khasi Language by H. Roberts Pdf

Author : Erik E. Andvik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004178274

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A Grammar of Tshangla by Erik E. Andvik Pdf

"A Grammar of Tshangla" is the first major linguistic description of Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Bhutan, northeast India, and southwest China. Written from a functional-typological perspective, it contains a wealth of illustrative examples both from elicited data and from spontaneously generated texts. It is a truly comprehensive description, including sections on phonology, lexicon, morphophonemics, morphosyntactic structure, clause-concatenating constructions, as well as discourse-pragmatic features. The volume will be of interest to language students, and to linguists and ethnographic scholars seeking to understand the Bhutanese and South Asian linguistic situation. The large amount of raw language data presented here make this "Grammar of Tshangla" an indispensable tool for students of Tibeto-Burman comparative linguistics and morphosyntactic theory in general.

Author : Diana Schackow
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.

Author : Manuel Widmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110766295

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A Grammar of Bunan by Manuel Widmer Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive grammatical description of Bunan, a Tibeto-Burman languages that is spoken by approximately 4,000 people in the North Indian Himalayas. The grammar offers a systematic analysis of a wide range of grammatical phenomena, ranging from phonetics and phonology to complex syntactic constructions. Moreover, it contains a wealth of historical annotations, annotated texts, and a Bunan-English glossary.

Author : A.R. Coupe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198522

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A Grammar of Mongsen Ao by A.R. Coupe Pdf

A Grammar of Mongsen Ao, the result of the author’s fieldwork over a ten-year period, presents the first comprehensive grammatical description of a language spoken in Nagaland, north-east India. The languages of this region remain under-documented for a number of historical reasons. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the widespread cultural practice of head-hunting discouraged outsiders from entering the Naga Hills. Shortly after Indian independence in 1947, an armed rebellion by Naga separatists and a government policy of restricting access to the troubled area ensured that Nagaland remained a difficult place to conduct research. In this context, A Grammar of Mongsen Ao offers valuable new insights into the structure of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in a linguistically little-known region of the world. The grammatical analysis documents all the functional domains of the language and includes four glossed and translated texts, the latter being of interest to anthropologists studying folklore. Mongsen Ao is a highly agglutinating, mostly suffixing language with predominantly dependent-marking characteristics. Its grammar demonstrates a number of typologically interesting features that are described in detail in the book. Among these is an unusual case marking system in which grammatical marking is motivated by semantic and pragmatic factors, and a rich verbal morphology that produces elaborate sequences of agglutinative suffixes. Grammaticalisation processes are also discussed where relevant, thereby extending the appeal of the book to linguists with interests in grammaticalisation theory. This book will be of value to any linguist seeking to clarify genetic relationships within the Tibeto-Burman family, and it will serve more broadly as a reference grammar for typologists interested in the typological features of a Tibeto-Burman language of north-east India.

Author : Nicolas Schorer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004326408

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The Dura Language by Nicolas Schorer Pdf

In The Dura Language: Grammar & Phylogeny Nicolas Schorer provides the definite descriptive account of this poorly documented language of Nepal and investigates the phonology, nominal and verbal morphology, lexical and syntactic properties as well as the phylogeny of Dura.

Author : Aleksandr Aĭkhenvalʹd,Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199683215

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The Art of Grammar by Aleksandr Aĭkhenvalʹd,Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Pdf

This text introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. It describes the means of collecting, analysing, and organizing data, and discusses the typological parameters that can be used to explore relationships with other languages.

Author : James Herbert Lorrain,Fred W. Savidge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1GWM

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A Grammar and Dictionary of the Lushai Language (Dulien Dialect) by James Herbert Lorrain,Fred W. Savidge Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SIL International
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781556715013

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Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World by Anonim Pdf

Multilingualisms vary. Given such variation, how can those from essentially mono-chromatic, monolingual backgrounds begin to appreciate the colorful multilingual realities of the majority world? This question led to the symposium Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World, May 10–15, 2018, in Penang, Malaysia. This resulting four-part collection of papers. -- J. Stephen Quakenbush

Author : Nicole Kruspe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521814979

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A Grammar of Semelai by Nicole Kruspe Pdf

Semelai is a previously undescribed and endangered Aslian (Mon-Khmer) language of the Malay Peninsula. This book - the first in-depth description of an Aslian language - provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Semelai. Semelai intertwines two types of morphological system: a concatenative system of prefixes, suffixes and a circumfix - acquired through extended contact with Malay - and a nonconcatenative system of prefixes and infixes (including infix reduplication), inherited from Mon-Khmer. There are distinctive word classes - Nominals, Verbs and Expressives - the latter iconic utterances which simultaneously provide information about the predicate and its arguments. Semelai has many derivational processes which change word class or affect transitivity, and it combines both head-marking and dependent-marking profiles. It also has a rich phonemic system of 20 vowels and 32 consonants. Nicole Kruspe's discussion is complemented with a generous number of illustrative examples and texts, creating a reference work that will be welcomed by descriptivists and typologists alike.

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192676122

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A New Grammar of Dyirbal by R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descriptions in the history of linguistics. In the fifty years since its publication, Dixon has continued his detailed work on the language, extending and refining the descriptions in light of more recent theoretical advances. The resulting A New Grammar of Dyirbal offers a comprehensive contemporary grammar of the language, reanalysed in myriad ways and drawing on an extensive corpus of texts. Among its many new features are further discussion of the applicative/causative derivation; a fresh focus on the role of the pervasive 'pivot', the syntactic linking of S and O functions; a detailed account of the two antipassives and their semantic contrast and phonological conditioning; and an extended account of relative clauses. The volume is accompanied by a companion website hosting the full set of textual data on which the grammar is based, as well as a thesaurus/dictionary of nouns, adjectives, and verbs across ten dialects of Dyirbal.

Author : W. Pryse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Khasi language
ISBN : UOM:39015032595186

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An Introduction to the Khasia Language Comprising Grammar, Selections for Reading, and a Vocabulary by W. Pryse Pdf