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Spoken Sibe : morphology of the inflected parts of speech /

At present, the Sibe language is the only oral variety of Manchu which is actually in use. With some 20,000 to 30,000 speakers it is also the most widely spoken Tungusic language. The Sibe people, who live at the North-Western border of the present-day Sinkiang Uyghur Autonomous province of China, a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zikmundová, Veronika, 1968-
Autor Corporativo: Univerzita Karlova
Otros Autores: Šerých, Jan (Diseñador, Diseñador de portada)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Prague : Karolinum Press, ©2013.
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  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • 0 Introduction
  • 1 Characteristics of spoken Sibe
  • 1.1 Notes on the phonetics and phonology
  • 1.2 Questions of transcription
  • 1.3 Remarks on the Sibe vocabulary
  • 1.4 Remarks on syntax
  • negation
  • 1.5 Word classes in spoken Sibe
  • 2 The Noun
  • 2.1 The category of number
  • 2.2 The category of case
  • 3 Qualitative nouns
  • 3.1 Qualitative nouns formed by derivational suffixes
  • 4 Pronouns
  • 4.1 Personal pronouns
  • 4.2 Remarks on the personal pronouns
  • 4.3 Demonstrative pronouns
  • 4.4 Interrogative pronouns
  • 4.5 Notes on demonstrative and interrogative pronouns
  • 5 Numerals
  • 5.1 The cardinal numerals
  • 5.2 The ordinal numerals
  • 5.3 The idiomatic use of numerals
  • 6 Spatials
  • 6.1 The spatial system in written Manchu
  • 6.2 The spatial system in spoken Sibe
  • 7 The verb
  • 7.1 The verbal system of spoken Sibe
  • 7.2 Finite verbs
  • 7.3 Imperative and optative forms
  • 7.4 Verbal nouns
  • 7.5 Converbs
  • 7.6 Deverbal suffixes
  • 7.7 Vicarious verbs
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix
  • Vocabulary
  • References
  • Summary