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1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages,
1877-4083 ;
volume 5
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Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; v. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Atong language and its speakers -- Phonology -- Word classes: an overview -- Verbs and verb/nouns -- Adjectives -- Nouns, the noun phrase and the nominal clump -- Kinship terms -- Deictic words -- Interrogatives -- Indefinite preforms -- The quantifier phrase, numerals and other quantifiers -- Classifiers -- Postpositions -- Discourse connectives -- Other word classes -- Sub-class-changing derivation -- Phrasal enclitics -- Semantic-role marking -- Pragmatic-role and specificity enclitics -- The predicate -- Derivational suffixes -- Predicate enclitics -- The clause, clause types and illocutionary force -- The factitive enclitic =wa, subordination and nominalization -- Goal-marked predicates -- Temporal-location and conditional clauses -- Concomitant-action clauses -- Adverbial and sequential clauses. |
| Summary |
Seino van Breugel's Grammar of Atong provides a deep and thorough coverage and grammatical analysis of all major areas of the language, making this book of great interest and value to general linguists and typologists as well as area specialists. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tibeto-Burman languages -- Grammar.
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Tibeto-Burman languages -- Grammar. |
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Tibeto-Burman languages. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Breugel, Seino van. Grammar of Atong 9789004258921 (DLC) 2013040605 (OCoLC)868298452 |
| ISBN |
9789004258938 (electronic book) |
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9004258930 (electronic book) |
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9789004258921 |
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9004258922 |
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