Screen LibraryA grammar of Dolakha newar /
A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is a comprehensive description of a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal. Brimming with examples from natural discourse, the book couples rigorous description of the language's structures with full discussion of how the structures are used by speakers in connected speech....
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2009] ©2007 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Mouton grammar library [mgl] ;
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| Summary: |
A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is a comprehensive description of a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal. Brimming with examples from natural discourse, the book couples rigorous description of the language's structures with full discussion of how the structures are used by speakers in connected speech. The result is a rich, readable, and beautifully argued portrait of a language and how it works. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (610pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110198812 |
| Index Number: | PL3801 |
| CLC: | H725.4 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviatitions -- Chapter 1. Context -- Chapter 2. Segmental phonetics and phonology -- Chapter 3. Prosody -- Chapter 4. Nouns and noun morphology -- Chapter 5. Personal pronouns, interrogatives, indefinites and demonstratives -- Chapter 6. Verbs and verb morphology -- Chapter 7. Adjectivals -- Chapter 8. Quantifiers -- Chapter 9. Adverbials -- Chapter 10. Particles and clitics of individuation and extension -- Chapter 11. Noun-phrase structure -- Chapter 12. Clause type -- Chapter 13. Grammatical relations -- Chapter 14. Constituent order -- Chapter 15. Clause-level syntactic constructions -- Chapter 16. Tense and aspect -- Chapter 17. Nominalization and related structures -- Chapter 18. Complementation -- Chapter 19. The participial construction -- Chapter 20. Adverbial clauses -- Chapter 21. The sentence: Prosodic and syntactic structuring -- Backmatter |