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Descriptive grammar of Bangla /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyle David, Anne (Autor)
Otros Autores: Conners, Thomas J. (Editor ), Chacón, Dustin A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Boston] ; [Berlin] : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
Colección:Mouton-CASL grammar series ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Preface
  • 1 About this Grammar
  • 1.1 Overview
  • 1.2 Scope of this book
  • 1.3 Tables and examples
  • 1.3.1 Order of elements in a gloss
  • 1.4 Abbreviations and symbols
  • 2 The Bangla Language
  • 2.1 Population of speakers
  • 2.2 History and classification
  • 2.3 Dialectal variation
  • 2.4 The Bangla script
  • 3 Phonology and Orthography
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Bangla phonemes
  • 3.2.1 Vowels
  • 3.2.2 Consonants
  • 3.3 Other phonology
  • 3.3.1 Phonotactics
  • 3.3.1.1 Vowels
  • 3.3.1.1.1 Occurrence constraints and height neutralization
  • 3.3.1.1.2 Anticipatory assimilation
  • 3.3.1.1.3 Progressive assimilation
  • 3.3.1.1.4 Sanskritic vowel mutation
  • 3.3.1.2 Consonants
  • 3.3.1.3 Syllable structure
  • 3.3.2 Prosody
  • 3.4 Romanized transcription and Bangla orthography
  • 3.4.1 Introduction: our transcription system
  • 3.4.2 Orthography of Bangla vowels
  • 3.4.2.1 Vowel length in the orthography
  • 3.4.2.2 Vowel letters and vowel diacritics
  • 3.4.2.3 The vowel letter? and the inherent vowel
  • 3.4.2.4 The vowel letter? and its diacritic
  • 3.4.3 Orthography of Bangla consonants
  • 3.4.3.1 Nasals
  • 3.4.3.2 Sibilants
  • 3.4.3.3 Consonant conjuncts
  • 3.4.3.4????
  • 3.4.3.5??
  • 3.5 Our transcription system
  • 4 Bangla as a South Asian Language
  • 4.1 Typological convergence
  • 4.1.1 Phonology
  • 4.1.2 Complex predicates
  • 4.1.2.1 Conjunct verbs
  • 4.1.2.2 Compound verbs
  • 4.1.3 Oblique case-marked subjects
  • 4.1.4 Reduplication & onomatopoeia
  • 4.1.5 Quotatives
  • 4.2 Typological divergence
  • 4.2.1 Phonology
  • 4.2.2 Ergativity
  • 4.2.3 Classifiers
  • 5 Nouns
  • 5.1 Nominal categories
  • 5.2 Nominal inflection
  • 5.2.1 Nominal markers
  • 5.2.2 Noun paradigms
  • 5.2.3 A note on orthography of case markers
  • 5.3 Allomorphy in noun inflection.
  • 5.3.1 Nominative marker allomorphy
  • 5.3.1.1 Singular
  • 5.3.1.2 Plural
  • 5.3.2 Genitive marker allomorphy
  • 5.3.2.1 Singular
  • 5.3.2.2 Plural
  • 5.3.3 Objective marker allomorphy
  • 5.3.3.1 Singular
  • 5.3.3.2 Plural
  • 5.3.4 Locative marker allomorphy
  • 5.4 Use of case and number markers
  • 5.4.1 Nominative
  • 5.4.1.1 Nominative case proper
  • 5.4.1.2 Unmarked nouns
  • 5.4.2 Objective
  • 5.4.3 Genitive
  • 5.4.4 Locative
  • 5.4.5 Plural number
  • 5.5 Noun derivation
  • 5.5.1 Deriving nouns from adjectives
  • 5.5.2 Deriving nouns from nouns
  • 6 Pronouns and Other Pro-forms
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Pronominal morphology
  • 6.2.1 Pronominal stems
  • 6.2.2 Pronominal case-marking suffixes
  • 6.2.3 Rules of stem allomorphy
  • 6.3 Personal pronouns (including demonstratives)
  • 6.3.1 First person pronouns
  • 6.3.2 Second person pronouns
  • 6.3.3 Third person pronouns
  • 6.4 Relative and correlative pronouns
  • 6.5 Demonstrative pronouns
  • 6.6 Reflexive pronouns
  • 6.7 Interrogative pronouns
  • 6.8 Indefinite pro-forms
  • 6.8.1 Indefinite pronouns and pro-forms
  • 6.8.2 Quantifying pro-forms
  • 6.8.2.1 Declinable quantifying pro-forms
  • 6.8.2.2 Indeclinable quantifying pro-forms
  • 7 Noun Modifiers
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Adjectives
  • 7.2.1 About adjectives
  • 7.2.2 Comparison of adjectives
  • 7.2.2.1 Comparatives
  • 7.2.2.2 Superlatives
  • 7.2.3 Historically derived adjectives
  • 7.2.3.1 Adjectives derived from adverbs
  • 7.2.3.2 Adjectives derived from nouns
  • 7.2.3.3 Adjectives derived from verbs
  • 7.3 Noun modification via other parts of speech
  • 7.4 Determiners
  • 7.4.1 Demonstratives
  • 7.4.2 Quantifiers
  • 7.4.2.1 Number names
  • 7.4.2.1.1 Inventory and representation
  • 7.4.2.1.2 Expressions involving number names
  • 7.4.2.2 Other quantifiers
  • 7.4.2.2.1 Inventory.
  • 7.4.2.2.2 Interrogative quantifiers
  • 7.4.2.2.3 Indefinite Quantifiers
  • 7.4.3 Classifiers
  • 7.4.3.1 Definition
  • 7.4.3.2 Inventory of classifiers
  • 7.4.3.2.1 -??/-?a/-???/-?e/-??/-?o/
  • 7.4.3.2.2 /-?i/
  • 7.4.3.2.3 -?? /-j?n/
  • 7.4.3.2.4 /-gulo/
  • 7.4.3.2.5 /-guli/
  • 7.4.3.2.6 -???? /-khana/
  • 7.4.3.2.7 -???? /-khani/
  • 7.4.3.2.8 /-?uku/-?uk/-?ukun/-?ukuni/
  • 7.4.3.3 Functions of classifiers
  • 7.4.3.4 Frozen classifiers
  • 7.4.3.4.1???? /-gacha/, -???? /-gachi/
  • 7.4.3.4.2 -???? /-fala/, -???? /-fali/
  • 8 Other Word Classes and Processes
  • 8.1 Interrogative words
  • 8.2 Adverbs
  • 8.3 Postpositions and prepositions
  • 8.3.1 Postpositions
  • 8.3.1.1 Postpositions requiring the genitive case
  • 8.3.1.2 Postpositions requiring no particular case
  • 8.3.1.3 Postpositions requiring the objective case
  • 8.3.1.4 Postpositions with optional genitive case
  • 8.3.2 Prepositions
  • 8.4 Conjunctions
  • 8.4.1 Coordinating conjunctions
  • 8.4.2 Subordinating conjunctions
  • 8.5 Particles or clitics
  • 8.5.1 The particle -? /-i/
  • 8.5.2 The particle -? /-o/
  • 8.5.3 The particle /to/
  • 8.5.4 The particle?? /ba/
  • 8.5.5 The particle /je/
  • 8.5.6 The particle??/ja/
  • 8.5.7 The interrogative particle?? /ki/
  • 8.6 Reduplication
  • 8.6.1 Reduplication of whole words
  • 8.6.1.1 Repetition of verbs
  • 8.6.1.2 Repetition of other parts of speech
  • 8.6.1.3 Reduplicative expressives
  • 8.6.2 Partial reduplication
  • 8.6.2.1 Partial reduplication with initial consonant insertion
  • 8.6.2.2 Partial reduplication with final vowel change
  • 8.7 Lengthened consonants
  • 9 Verbs
  • 9.1 Inflectional features
  • 9.1.1 Verbal categories
  • 9.1.2 Personal, tense, and aspect suffixes
  • 9.1.3 Verbal stem allomorphy
  • 9.2 Verb conjugation classes
  • 9.2.1 Class 1: (C)VC-
  • V? /a/
  • 9.2.2 Class 2: (C)aC-
  • 9.2.3 Class 3: (C)V.
  • V? a
  • 9.2.4 Class 4: (C)a-
  • 9.2.5 Class 5: (C)?(i)- or (C)a(i)-
  • 9.2.6 Class 6: (C)VCa- or (C)Vwa-
  • 9.2.7 Class 7: (C)VCCa- or (C)VVCa- ("three-letter" verbs)
  • 9.3 Verb paradigms
  • 9.3.1 Simple present
  • 9.3.1.1 Morphology of the simple present
  • 9.3.1.2 Uses of the simple present
  • 9.3.2 Present imperative
  • 9.3.2.1 Morphology of the present imperative
  • 9.3.2.2 Uses of the present imperative
  • 9.3.3 Present imperfect
  • 9.3.3.1 Morphology of the present imperfect
  • 9.3.3.2 Uses of the present imperfect
  • 9.3.4 Present perfect
  • 9.3.4.1 Morphology of the present perfect
  • 9.3.4.2 Uses of the present perfect
  • 9.3.5 Simple future
  • 9.3.5.1 Morphology of the simple future
  • 9.3.5.2 Uses of the simple future
  • 9.3.6 Future imperative
  • 9.3.6.1 Morphology of the future imperative
  • 9.3.6.2 Uses of the future imperative
  • 9.3.7 Simple past
  • 9.3.7.1 Morphology of the simple past
  • 9.3.7.2 Uses of the simple past
  • 9.3.8 Conditional/past habitual
  • 9.3.8.1 Morphology of the conditional/past habitual
  • 9.3.8.2 Uses of the conditional/past habitual
  • 9.3.9 Past imperfect
  • 9.3.9.1 Morphology of the past imperfect
  • 9.3.9.2 Uses of the past imperfect
  • 9.3.10 Past perfect
  • 9.3.10.1 Morphology of the past perfect
  • 9.3.10.2 Uses of the past perfect
  • 9.4 Irregular verbs
  • 9.4.1??- /ach-/ 'to be present, exist'
  • 9.4.2 /dewa/ 'to give'
  • 9.4.3 /newa/ 'to take'
  • 9.4.4?- /n?-/ 'not to be, not to exist'
  • 9.4.5?????/jawa/ 'to go'
  • 9.4.6??? /asa/ 'to come'
  • 9.5 Non-finite forms
  • 9.5.1 Perfect participle
  • 9.5.1.1 Morphology of perfect participles
  • 9.5.1.2 Uses
  • 9.5.2 Imperfect participle
  • 9.5.2.1 Morphology of imperfect participles
  • 9.5.2.2 Uses
  • 9.5.3 Conditional participle
  • 9.5.3.1 Morphology of the conditional participle
  • 9.5.3.2 Uses
  • 9.5.4 Verbal noun.
  • 9.5.4.1 Morphology of verbal nouns
  • 9.5.4.1.1 Common form
  • 9.5.4.1.2 Alternate form
  • 9.5.4.2 Uses
  • 9.6 Causatives
  • 9.6.1 Morphology of causatives
  • 9.6.2 Causatives of pseudo-causative verbs
  • 9.6.3 Triple causatives
  • 9.7 Negation
  • 9.7.1?? /na/
  • 9.7.1.1 As a negator of verbs
  • 9.7.1.2 Other uses of?? /na/:
  • 9.7.2 /nei/ 'is not'
  • 9.7.3?- /n?-/ 'not to be, not to exist' (the negative copula)
  • 9.7.4?? /ni/ (the perfect negative)
  • 9.7.5???? /nara/
  • 10 Syntax
  • 10.1 Word order and clause structure
  • 10.1.1 Scrambling
  • 10.1.2 The two be verbs
  • 10.1.2.1??- /ach-/ 'be'
  • 10.1.3 Questions
  • 10.1.3.1 Question marker
  • 10.1.3.2 Wh-phrases
  • 10.1.3.2.1 Wh-phrase structure
  • 10.2 Noun phrase structure
  • 10.2.1 Word order
  • 10.2.1.1 Adjective placement
  • 10.2.2 Headless noun phrases
  • 10.2.3 Definiteness marking
  • 10.2.4 Quantifiers and classifiers
  • 10.2.4.1 Bare nouns
  • 10.2.4.1.1 Nouns with and without classifiers
  • 10.2.4.1.2 Floating quantifiers
  • 10.2.4.2 "The whole"
  • 10.2.4.3 Indefinite number
  • 10.2.5 Associative plurals
  • 10.3 Verbal phrase structure
  • 10.3.1 Valency
  • 10.3.1.1 Passives
  • 10.3.1.2 Causatives
  • 10.3.2 Light verb constructions
  • 10.3.2.1 Subjects and light verbs
  • 10.3.2.2 Scrambling
  • 10.3.2.3 Light verb inventory
  • 10.3.3 Conjunct verbs
  • 10.3.3.1 Uses of conjunct verbs
  • 10.3.3.2 Selection
  • 10.3.4 Imperfect participles
  • 10.3.4.1 Other uses of the imperfect participle
  • 10.4 Postpositions
  • 10.5 Subordinate clauses
  • 10.5.1 Perfect participles as subordinators
  • 10.5.2 Conditionals
  • 10.5.3 Relative and correlative clauses
  • 10.5.3.1 Modifying nouns
  • 10.5.4 Complement clauses
  • 10.5.5 Other subordinate clauses
  • 10.6 Non-canonical case-marking
  • 10.6.1 Oblique subjects vs. nominative subjects.