| Description |
1 online resource (x, 488 pages) |
| Series |
Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the greater Himalayan region, 1568-6183 ; v. 5/10 |
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Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the greater Himalayan region. 1568-6183
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| Contents |
List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Morpheme Glosses; Acknowdedgements; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Phonology; Chapter Three Lexicon and Word Classes; Chapter Four Morphophonemics; Chapter Five Noun Phrase; Chapter Six The Clause, Syntactic Roles and Transitivity; Chapter Seven Case Marking; Chapter Eight Sentence, Clause and Predicate; Chapter Nine Sentence Types and Sentence Moods; Chapter Ten Finite Clauses: Tense, Aspect and Mirativity; Chapter Eleven Relative Clauses; Chapter Twelve Other Embedded Clauses; Chapter Thirteen Adverbial Clauses |
| Summary |
A Grammar of Tshangla is the first major linguistic description of Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Bhutan, northeast India, and southwest China. Written from a functional-typological perspective, it contains a wealth of illustrative examples both from elicited data and from spontaneously generated texts. It is a truly comprehensive description, including sections on phonology, lexicon, morphophonemics, morphosyntactic structure, clause-concatenating constructions, as well as discourse-pragmatic features. The volume will be of interest to language students, and to linguists and eth |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tshangla language -- Grammar
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789047440628 |
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9047440625 |
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1282949977 |
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9781282949973 |
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