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A Grammar of Dumi

Author : George van Driem
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110880911
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Dumi written by George van Driem and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Netra Mani Rai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783862888320
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Dumi written by Netra Mani Rai and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Dictionary of Dumi

Author : Netra Mani Rai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783862888498
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Dumi written by Netra Mani Rai and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Yakkha

Author : Diana Schackow
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3946234119
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book A grammar of Yakkha written by Diana Schackow and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Grammar of Kambera

Author : Marian Klamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110805537
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Kambera written by Marian Klamer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Jeffrey Heath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110804859
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Koyra Chiini written by Jeffrey Heath and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Picus Sizhi Ding
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004279776
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Prinmi written by Picus Sizhi Ding and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Guìqióng

Author : Li Jiang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004293043
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Guìqióng written by Li Jiang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Grammar of Guìqióng, Jiāng Lì describes the grammar of Guìqióng, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in Kāngdìng county, China. Guìqióng has a lot to offer in its phonology, verbal and nominal morphology, syntax and glossary, distinguishing itself from the neighbouring Tibetan, Chinese, Qiangic and Loloish languages. The newly discovered features of Guìqióng include breathy vs. modal voice, indefinite number, ablative, ergative, instrumental, dative and genitive case markers, topic and emphatic markers, the diminutive suffixes, the pronominal and deictic systems, demonstratives and numerals, a rich store of differentiated copular verbs expressing equationality, inchoative, animacy vs. inanimacy, dependent existence and negation, verbal affixes indicating directions, present tense of experienced perceptions, gnomic tense, perfective vs. imperfective aspect, modality and evidentiality.

A grammar of Japhug

Author : Guillaume Jacques
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961103054
Total Pages : 1596 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book A grammar of Japhug written by Guillaume Jacques and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba district, Sichuan province, China. This grammar is the result of nearly 20 years of fieldwork on one variety of Japhug, based on a corpus of narratives and conversations, a large part of which is available from the Pangloss Collection. It covers the whole grammar of the language, and the text examples provide a unique insight into Gyalrong culture. It was written with a general linguistics audience in mind, and should prove useful not only to specialists of Trans-Himalayan historical linguistics and typologists, but also to anthropologists doing research in Gyalrong areas. It is also hoped that some readers will use it to learn Japhug and pursue research on this fascinating language in the future.

A Grammar of Jero

Author : Jean Robert Opgenort
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047415086
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Jero written by Jean Robert Opgenort and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

A Grammar Of Lepcha

Author : Heleen Plaisier
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004155252
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar Of Lepcha written by Heleen Plaisier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly readable book is the first comprehensive reference grammar of the Lepcha language of Darjeeling, Sikkim and Kalimpong. This grammar explains the structure of the language, its sound system and salient features, and includes a lexicon and cultural history.

A Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa (2 vols.)

Author : Anton Lustig
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004190163
Total Pages : 1667 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa (2 vols.) written by Anton Lustig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 1667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a thorough and unique documentation of the conceptual universe expressed through the typologically highly interesting Zaiwa language of the Jingpo minority in China.

A Grammar of the Thangmi Language

Author : Mark Turin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004155260
Total Pages : 1003 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of the Thangmi Language written by Mark Turin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 1003 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a grammar of Thangmi, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the districts of Dolakha and Sindhupalcok in central-eastern Nepal. The language is spoken by upwards of 30,000 people belonging to an ethnic group of the same name. The Thangmi are one of Nepal s least documented communities.These two volumes include a grammatical description of the Dolakha dialect of Thangmi, a collection of glossed oral texts and a comprehensive lexicon with relevant examples. In addition, the reader will find an extensive ethnolinguistic introduction to the speakers and their culture.For students and scholars of anthropology and linguistics, this study is a compelling illustration of the interweaving of these disciplines in the context of Himalayan studies.With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).

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

Author : Dörte Borchers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047433491
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 7 A Grammar of Sunwar written by Dörte Borchers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 4: A Grammar of Kulung

Author : Gerard Tolsma
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047418166
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 4: A Grammar of Kulung written by Gerard Tolsma and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first description of Kulung, a complex-pronominalising Kiranti (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in eastern Nepal. This grammar of Kulung is an exhaustive reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, and linguistic theory.

A Grammar of Sunwar

Author : Dörte Borchers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004167099
Total Pages : 345 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of Sunwar written by Dörte Borchers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : David E. Watters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139436082
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Kham written by David E. Watters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.