Description |
1 online resource. |
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Series |
Brill's Tibetan studies library
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Languages of the Greater Hymalayan Region
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Brill's Tibetan studies library ; 5/18.
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Languages of the greater Himalayan region ; 18.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction -- Contrastive phonology -- Non-contrastive phonology -- Word classes and word-formation processes -- Lexicon -- Syntactic overview -- The noun phrase -- Post-head nominal modifiers -- Proforms -- Case-marking -- The verbal complex -- Copulas and non-verbal predication -- Nominalization -- Tense/aspect -- Evidentiality, mirativity, and related categories -- Multi-clause constructions -- Negation and non-declarative speech acts -- Rhetorical devices -- References. |
Summary |
A grammar of Kurtop' is the first descriptive grammar of Kurtop, a threatened language of Bhutan, and the only reference grammar of any East Bodish language. The East Bodish languages are a relatively unstudied branch of the larger Tibeto-Burman family, situated in Bhutan and neighbouring regions in Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh. The chapters introduce the language and the people who speak in a historical context and then go on to detail the synchronic and diachronic phonology, discuss word classes and cause structure, morphosyntax and syntax, and illustrate rich system of evidentiality and related categories. The book will be of interest to Tibeto-Burmanists, historical linguists and those interested in the prehistory of the eastern Himalayas, and to typologists. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Kurtokha language -- Grammar.
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Kurtokha language. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Hyslop, Gwendolyn. Grammar of Kurtöp. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004292505 (DLC) 2016051736 |
ISBN |
9789004328747 (electronic book) |
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9004328742 (electronic book) |
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9789004292505 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004292500 |
Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004328747 |
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