A Grammar of Darma

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39514-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 574 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1021 g

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

A Grammar of Darma provides the first comprehensive description of this Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Uttarakhand, India. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework and draws on a corpus of data gathered through elicitation, observation and recordings of natural discourse. Every effort has been made to describe day-to-day language, so whenever possible, illustrative examples are taken from extemporaneous speech and contextualized. Sections of the grammar should appeal widely to scholars interested in South Asia’s languages and cultures, including discussions of the socio-cultural setting, the sound system, morphosyntactic, clause and discourse structure. The grammar’s interlinearized texts and glossary provide a trove of useful information for comparative linguists working on Tibeto-Burman languages and anyone interested in the world’s less-commonly spoken languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oko, Christina Willis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Christina Willis Oko, Ph.D. (2007), University of Texas, Austin, is a researcher specializing in the documentation and description of lesser-studied Tibeto-Burman languages of South Asia. Her work emphasizes the study of natural discourse to understand patterns in language and society.