[PDF] A Grammar Of Tshangla eBook

Author : Erik E. Andvik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004178279

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"A Grammar of Tshangla" is the first major linguistic description of Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Bhutan, northeast India, and southwest China. Written from a functional-typological perspective, it contains a wealth of illustrative examples both from elicited data and from spontaneously generated texts. It is a truly comprehensive description, including sections on phonology, lexicon, morphophonemics, morphosyntactic structure, clause-concatenating constructions, as well as discourse-pragmatic features. The volume will be of interest to language students, and to linguists and ethnographic scholars seeking to understand the Bhutanese and South Asian linguistic situation. The large amount of raw language data presented here make this "Grammar of Tshangla" an indispensable tool for students of Tibeto-Burman comparative linguistics and morphosyntactic theory in general.

Author : Selin Grollmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004435239

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A Grammar of Bjokapakha by Selin Grollmann constitutes the first description of Bjokapakha, an endangered language spoken in central Bhutan belonging to the Tshangla branch of Trans-Himalayan. This grammar comprises a description of the phonology, lexicon, nominal morphology, predicate structures and syntax. In addition to the descriptive parts, this book encompasses a historical-comparative account of Bjokapakha. The introductory chapter provides a comparison with the standard variety of Tshangla and corroborates the internal diversity of the Tshangla branch. The present-day structure of Bjokapakha verbal morphology is illuminated by means of an internal reconstruction. Moreover, this book contains a glossary and a text collection.

Author : Christina Willis Oko
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004409491

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A Grammar of Darma provides a comprehensive description of this threatened Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India’s Himalayan region. The description is based on a corpus that includes natural discourse and elicited data. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework.

Author : Gwendolyn Hyslop
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004328742

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A grammar of Kurtöp presents the phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of Kurtöp, a Tibeto-Burman language of northeastern Bhutan. When possible, data are presented in a comparative light, lending insight into the development of phenomena such as tonogenesis and nominalizations.

Author : Timotheus Adrianus Bodt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004409483

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The volume Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa) is a comprehensive description of Duhumbi, the language spoken by the Duhumbi (Chugpa, Chug Monpa) people of Dirang circle West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Author : Heleen Plaisier
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004155252

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This highly readable book is the first comprehensive reference grammar of the Lepcha language of Darjeeling, Sikkim and Kalimpong. This grammar explains the structure of the language, its sound system and salient features, and includes a lexicon and cultural history.

Author : Gerard Tolsma
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9047418166

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This book is the first description of Kulung, a complex-pronominalising Kiranti (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in eastern Nepal. This grammar of Kulung is an exhaustive reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, and linguistic theory.

Author : Graham Thurgood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1315399490

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There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few decades. Now in its second edition and fully updated to include new research, The Sino-Tibetan Languages includes overview articles on individual languages, with an emphasis on the less commonly described languages, as well as descriptions and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. There are overviews of the whole family on genetic classification and language contact, syntax and morphology, and also on word order typology. There are also more detailed overview articles on the phonology, morphosyntax, and writing system of just the Sinitic side of the family. Supplementing these overviews are articles on Shanghainese, Cantonese and Mandarin dialects. Tibeto-Burman is reviewed by genetic or geographical sub-group, with overview articles on some of the major groups and areas, and there are also detailed descriptions of 41 individual Tibeto-Burman languages, written by world experts in the field. Designed for students and researchers of Asian languages, The Sino-Tibetan Languages is a detailed overview of the field. This book is invaluable to language students, experts requiring concise, but thorough, information on related languages, and researchers working in historical, typological and comparative linguistics.

Author : Hans Henrich Hock
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110423308

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With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory. This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers challenges for future research. In addition to covering the languages, their histories, and their genetic classification, as well as phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics, the volume provides special coverage of contact and convergence, indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions, applications of modern technology to South Asian languages, and South Asian writing systems. An appendix offers a classified listing of major sources and resources, both digital/online and printed.