Descriptive grammar of Bangla /
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Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Boston] ; [Berlin] :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2015]
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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.