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A grammar of Atong / By Seino van Breugel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breugel, Seino van, author.
- Series:
- Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; Volume 5.
- Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, 1877-4083 ; Volume 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tibeto-Burman languages--Grammar.
- Tibeto-Burman languages.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvii, 659 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 649-653) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel W. Golden Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004258921
- 9004258922
- 9004258930
- 9789004258938
- OCLC:
- 868298452
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