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Author: Watters, David E.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Adobe PDF
Content Language: English
ISBN: 9780511030017
Print ISBN: 9780521812450
Size: 2,459 KB
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 1998-11-13
Category:
Foreign Language Study > African Languages
Territorial Restrictions:
Available Worldwide
Digital Rights:
Copy Count: 5
Copy Interval (Days): 30
Print Count: 20
Print Interval (Days): 30
Read Aloud: Enabled
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This is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjectivals. Its verb morphology has implications for the understanding of the history of the entire Tibeto-Burman family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, deals with all major aspects of the language including segmental phonology, tone, word classes, noun phrases, nominalizations, transitivity alterations, tense-aspect-modality, non-declarative speech acts, and complex sentence structure. It provides copious examples throughout the exposition and includes three short native texts and a vocabulary of more than 400 words, many of them reconstructed for Proto-Kham and Proto-Tibeto-Burman. This book will be a valuable resource for typologists and general linguists alike.
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