A grammar of Kurtöp /
A grammar of Kurtop' is the first descriptive grammar of Kurtop, a threatened language of Bhutan, and the only reference grammar of any East Bodish language. The East Bodish languages are a relatively unstudied branch of the larger Tibeto-Burman family, situated in Bhutan and neighbouring regio...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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Colección: | Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
5/18. Languages of the greater Himalayan region ; 18. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Contrastive phonology
- Non-contrastive phonology
- Word classes and word-formation processes
- Lexicon
- Syntactic overview
- The noun phrase
- Post-head nominal modifiers
- Proforms
- Case-marking
- The verbal complex
- Copulas and non-verbal predication
- Nominalization
- Tense/aspect
- Evidentiality, mirativity, and related categories
- Multi-clause constructions
- Negation and non-declarative speech acts
- Rhetorical devices
- References.