Cargando…

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hyslop, Gwendolyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Colección:Brill's Tibetan studies library ; 5/18.
Languages of the greater Himalayan region ; 18.
Temas:
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.