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1 online resource (336 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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London Oriental and African Language Library
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London Oriental and African language library.
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Mongolian; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Figures and tables; Symbols and abbreviations; Map; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The geographical context; 1.2 The Mongolic language family; 1.3 Common Mongolic; 1.4 The literary languages; 1.5 Dialectal division; 1.6 The oral standards; 1.7 The demographic situation; 1.8 Interaction with other languages; 1.9 The languages of Outer Mongolia; 1.10 The languages of Inner Mongolia; 1.11 Sources on Mongolian; 1.12 Sources on Mongolic; 2. Segmental structure; 2.1 Orthographical systems; 2.2 Principles of notation. |
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2.3 The phonological framework2.4 Basic consonants; 2.5 Consonant phonetics; 2.6 Basic vowels; 2.7 Vowel neutralizations; 2.8 Long monophthongs; 2.9 Diphthongs; 2.10 Vowels of non-initial syllables; 2.11 Consonant palatalization; 2.12 Vowel palatalization; 2.13 Palatal breaking; 2.14 The status of the palatal glide; 2.15 The status of the labial glide; 2.16 Velars and postvelars; 2.17 Syllable-final nasals; 3. Morpheme structure; 3.1 Typological orientation; 3.2 Parts of speech; 3.3 Types of segmental alternations; 3.4 Stem types; 3.5 Nasal stems; 3.6 The unstable nasal; 3.7 The reduced vowel. |
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3.8 Stable consonant clusters3.9 Consonant phonotactics; 3.10 Vowel harmony; 3.11 Connective consonants; 3.12 Connective vowels; 3.13 Types of bound morphemes; 3.14 Prosody and juncture; 3.15 Phonological emphasis; 4. Nominal morphology; 4.1 Categories of nominal morphology; 4.2 Nominal derivation; 4.3 Plural marking; 4.4 Generic rhymes; 4.5 The case system; 4.6 Case marking; 4.7 Paradigms with the unstable nasal; 4.8 Double declension; 4.9 The marked nominative; 4.10 Adjectival morphology; 4.11 Alliterative particles; 4.12 Spatial morphology; 4.13 Numeral morphology. |
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4.14 Non-personal pronouns4.15 Personal pronouns; 4.16 Personal possessor marking; 4.17 Reflexive possessor marking; 5. Verbal morphology; 5.1 Categories of verbal morphology; 5.2 Verbal derivation; 5.3 Voice marking; 5.4 Modal markers; 5.5 Tense-aspect markers; 5.6 The nominalization of verbals; 5.7 The converbialization of verbals; 5.8 Quasiconverbs; 5.9 Ambivalent non-finite forms; 5.10 Auxiliaries; 5.11 Defective verbs; 5.12 Synthetic periphrastic forms; 5.13 Negation marking on verbals; 5.14 Interrogation marking on verbals; 6. Phrasal syntax; 6.1 Types of phrases. |
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6.2 The basic nominal phrase6.3 Binomes and appositions; 6.4 Phrases with numeral headwords; 6.5 Phrases with spatial headwords; 6.6 Phrases with pronominal headwords; 6.7 Phrases with adjectival headwords; 6.8 Postpositional phrases; 6.9 The basic verbal phrase; 6.10 Object marking; 6.11 Adverbial marking; 6.12 Adverbal invariables; 6.13 Complex verbal predicates; 6.14 The syntax of clitics; 6.15 Coordinating conjunctions; 7. Clausal syntax; 7.1 Types of clauses; 7.2 The basic finite clause; 7.3 The imperative clause; 7.4 The nominal clause; 7.5 The existential clause. |
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7.6 Possessive constructions. |
| Summary |
Mongolian is the principal language spoken by some five million ethnic Mongols living in Outer and Inner Mongolia, as well as in adjacent parts of Russia and China. The spoken language is divided into a number of mutually intelligible dialects, while for writing two separate written languages are used: Cyrillic Khalkha in Outer Mongolia (the Republic of Mongolia) and Written Mongol in Inner Mongolia (P.R. China). In this grammatical description, the focus is on the standard varieties of the spoken language, as used in broadcasting, education, and everyday casual speech. The dialectology of th. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mongolian language -- Grammar.
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Mongolian language -- Grammar. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: 9781283895149 (DLC) 2012033112 |
| ISBN |
9789027273055 (electronic book) |
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9027273057 (electronic book) |
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9789027238207 (Cloth) |
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9027238200 (Cloth) |
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9781283895149 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283895145 (MyiLibrary) |
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