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A Grammar Of Dumi
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Author : George van Driem
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-07-22
A Grammar Of Dumi written by George van Driem and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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
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Author : Netra Mani Rai
language : en
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Release Date : 2017
A Grammar Of Dumi written by Netra Mani Rai and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Dumi language categories.
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
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Author : Netra Mani Rai
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
A Dictionary Of Dumi written by Netra Mani Rai and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Dumi language categories.
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
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Author : Diana Schackow
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2015-10-12
A Grammar Of Yakkha written by Diana Schackow and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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
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Author : Marian Klamer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-05-12
A Grammar Of Kambera written by Marian Klamer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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
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Author : Jeffrey Heath
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-04-20
A Grammar Of Koyra Chiini written by Jeffrey Heath and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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
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Author : Picus Sizhi Ding
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-06-05
A Grammar Of Prinmi written by Picus Sizhi Ding and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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
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Author : Dörte Borchers
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008
A Grammar Of Sunwar written by Dörte Borchers and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Social Science categories.
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
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Author : David E. Watters
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-01
A Grammar Of Kham written by David E. Watters and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
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
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Author : Dörte Borchers
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-05-31
Languages Of The Greater Himalayan Region Volume 7 A Grammar Of Sunwar written by Dörte Borchers and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.