A Grammar of Guìqióng

A Language of Sichuan
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29209-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

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

In A Grammar of Guìqióng, Jiang Lì describes the grammar of Guìqióng, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in Kangdìng 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jiang, Li

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Jiang Lì, Shandong University, is associate professor of second language teaching at that university. She has published translations and articles on literary studies, English teaching and Chinese studies.