Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 1177 g
Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 1177 g
Reihe: Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions
ISBN: 978-0-521-81245-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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.
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1. The people and their language; 2. Segmental phonology; 3. Tonology; 4. Nouns and noun morphology; 5. Verbs and verb morphology; 6. Modifiers and adjectivals; 7. Locatives, dimensionals and temporal adverbs; 8. Adverbs and adverbials; 9. Minor word classes; 10. Noun phrases, nominalizations and relative clauses; 11. Simple clauses, transitivity and voice; 12. Tense, aspect and modality; 13. The modality of certainty, obligation, unexpected information; 14. Non-declarative speech acts; 15. Interclausal relations and sentence structure; 16. Nominalized verb forms in discourse; 17. The Kham verb in historical perspective; 18. Texts; 19. Vocabulary; References.
