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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Brill's Tibetan Studies Library
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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region ; volume 5/17
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Languages of the greater Himalayan region ; volume 5/17.
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Brill's Tibetan studies library.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Aims; 1.2 Organisation; 1.3 Approach; 1.4 Data on Tibeto-Burman; 1.5 Dura Sources; 1.6 Epistemological Limitations; 1.7 Fieldwork and Informants; 1.8 A Note on the Transliteration and Spelling Conventions; Chapter 2 The Dura and Their Language; 2.1 The Dura People-Kingmakers on the Fringes; 2.2 The Dura Language; 2.3 Earlier Research on Dura; 2.4 Dura Media Frenzy; 2.5 Language Classification; Chapter 3 A Typological Overview; 3.1 Phonology; 3.2 Morphology and Syntax; 3.3 Summary. |
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Chapter 4 Towards a Phonology of Dura4.1 Consonants; 4.2 Vowels; 4.3 Diphthongs; 4.4 Phonological Processes; 4.5 Phonotactics; Chapter 5 Lexicon; 5.1 Dura Sound Changes; 5.2 Dura Swadesh Lists; 5.3 Kinship Terms; 5.4 Foodstuffs; 5.5 Animals; 5.6 Basic Verbs; 5.7 Numerals; 5.8 Colour Terms; 5.9 Household and Environment; 5.10 Human Body Parts and Body Functions; 5.11 Loanwords; Chapter 6 Nouns; 6.1 Pronouns; 6.2 Noun Categories; 6.3 Nominal Prefixes; 6.4 Case Suffixes; 6.5 Relator Nouns & Postpositions; 6.6 Nominalisations; 6.7 Simple Nouns; 6.8 Compounding; 6.9 Noun Reduplication. |
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6.10 The Structure of the Noun Phrase6.11 Unanalysable Nouns; Chapter 7 Adjectives and Adjectivals; 7.1 Common Adjectives; 7.2 Adjectivals; Chapter 8 Verbs; 8.1 Verbal Prefixes; 8.2 Verbal Suffixes; 8.3 Copulas; 8.4 Periphrastic Constructions; 8.5 Modal Constructions; 8.6 Periphrastic Causative; 8.7 Complex Predicate Constructions; Chapter 9 Adverbs; 9.1 Adverbs of Time; 9.2 Adverbs of Location; 9.3 Adverbs of Manner; 9.4 Epistemic Adverbs; Chapter 10 Minor Word Classes; 10.1 Other Pronouns; 10.2 Other Demonstratives; 10.3 Quantifiers; 10.4 Possible Remnants of Numeral Classifiers. |
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10.5 Words with Pragmatic FunctionChapter 11 Phylogenetic Evidence; 11.1 Phonology; 11.2 Lexicon; 11.3 Morphology & Syntax; 11.4 The Case of West Bodish; 11.5 Proposed Genetic Affiliation of Dura; Appendix; Maps; Master List of Morphological Items; Dura Sentences; Etymological Reference Dictionary; References; Sources; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dura language -- Grammar.
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Dura language. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Dura language -- History.
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History. |
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Extinct languages -- Nepal.
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Extinct languages. |
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Nepal. |
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Lamjung (Nepal : District) -- Languages.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schorer, Nicolas. Dura language. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004325609 (DLC) 2016028938 |
| ISBN |
9789004326408 (electronic book) |
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9004326405 (electronic book) |
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9789004325609 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004325603 |
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