A Grammar of Kurtöp

approx. xiii, 355 pp, index
ISBN: 978-90-04-29250-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region

A grammar of Kurtöp is the first descriptive grammar of Kurtöp, a threatened language of Bhutan, and the only reference grammar of any East Bodish language. The East Bodish languages are a relatively unstudied branch of the larger Tibeto-Burman family, situated in Bhutan and neighbouring regions in Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh. The chapters introduce the language and the people who speak in a historical context and then go on to detail the synchronic and diachronic phonology, discuss word classes and cause structure, morphosyntax and syntax, and illustrate rich system of evidentiality and related categories. The book will be of interest to Tibeto-Burmanists, historical linguists and those interested in the prehistory of the eastern Himalayas, and to typologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hyslop, Gwendolyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Gwendolyn Hyslop, PhD. (2011), University of Oregon, is Lecturer of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. She is a specialist of the Tibeto-Burman languages of Bhutan, and has published many articles on their structure and historical development.