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1 online resource : illustrations (some color). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region ; 15
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Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the greater Himalayan region ; 15.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Jiang Lì describes the grammar of Guìqióng, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in K?ngdìng county, China. Guìqióng has a lot to offer in its phonology, verbal and nominal morphology, syntax and glossary, distinguishing itself from the neighbouring Tibetan, Chinese, Qiangic and Loloish languages. 0The newly discovered features of Guìqióng include breathy vs. modal voice, indefinite number, ablative, ergative, instrumental, dative and genitive case markers, topic and emphatic markers, the diminutive suffixes, the pronominal and deictic systems, demonstratives and numerals, a rich store of differentiated copular verbs expressing equationality, inchoative, animacy vs. inanimacy, dependent existence and negation, verbal affixes indicating directions, present tense of experienced perceptions, gnomic tense, perfective vs. imperfective aspect, modality and evidentiality. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; List of Illustrations ; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Location ; 1.2 The Names of the People and the Language ; 1.3 Guìqióng in the Documented History; 1.4 Archaeological Findings of the Guìqióng Area; 1.5 Lingering Memories; 1.6 Life Styles; 1.7 Demographic Data of Guìqióng Speakers; 1.8 Literature Review; 2 Guìqióng Phonology; 2.1 Guìqióng Vowels, Nasalisation and Diphthong; 2.1.1 Guìqióng Vowel Initials and Their Tones; 2.1.2 Phonetic Description of Guìqióng Vowels; 2.2 Phonetic Description of Guìqióng Consonants. |
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2.2.10 The Bilabial Consonants /p/, /ph/, /b/, /'b/, /'m/, /m/, /z/ and /Ý/2.2.11 The Lateral Continuant /lh/, the Glides /'l/, /l/, /'j/, / j/, /'w/ and /w/; 2.3 Guìqióng Tones and Initials; 2.3.1 A General Description of Guìqióng Tones; 2.3.2 Guìqióng Tones and Their Markers; 2.4 Guìqióng Syllables and Consonant Finals; 2.5 Assimilation; 2.6 Regressive Vowel Harmony; 2.7 Prosody; 2.8 Variation; 3 Morphology; 3.1 Nominal Morphology; 3.1.1 Definite versus Indefinite Number of Nouns; 3.1.2 Case; 3.1.3 The Diminutives; 3.1.4 Personal Pronouns; 3.1.5 Demonstrative Determiners and Pronouns. |
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3.1.6 Numerals3.2 Verbal Morphology; 3.2.1 Guìqióng Bare Stem Sentences; 3.2.2 Guìqióng Copulas; 3.2.3 Guìqióng Derivational Verb Roots; 3.2.4 Directional Morphemes; 3.2.5 Tense Marking; 3.2.6 Aspect Marking; 3.2.7 Modality Markers and Modal Verbs; 3.2.8 The Evidential Constructions; 3.2.9 The Causative Markers; 3.2.10 Negation, Adverbs and Adverbials; 3.2.11 The Instrumental and Oblique Nominaliser -'ji; 4 Syntax; 4.1 Simple Clause; 4.1.1 Verbal Clauses; 4.1.2 Non-verbal Clauses; 4.2 Complex Clauses; 4.2.1 Coordination; 4.2.2 Subordination; 4.2.3 Serial Verbs; 4.3 Basic Word Order. |
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4.4 Interrogative Constructions4.4.1 Polar Questions; 4.4.2 Question-word Questions; 4.4.3 Rhetorical Questions; 5 Pragmatics; 5.1 New versus Old Information; 5.2 Topic-comment Constructions; 5.2.1 Topic Marker; 5.3 Focus-presupposition Constructions; 5.3.1 Emphatic Marker; Appendices; Appendix 1: Sayings, Stories and Recollections; Appendix 2: Guìqióng-English Glossary; Appendix 3: English-Guìqióng Glossary; References; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Guiqiong language -- Grammar.
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Guiqiong language. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jiang, Li (Language teacher). Grammar of Guìqióng 9789004292093 (DLC) 2015010879 (OCoLC)907631605 |
| ISBN |
9789004293045 (electronic book) |
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9004293043 (electronic book) |
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9789004292093 |
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9004292098 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004293045 |
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