A grammar of Kurtöp / by Gwendolyn Hyslop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyslop, Gwendolyn, author.

Series:

Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 5/18.

Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the greater Himalayan region

Brill's Tibetan studies library ; volume 5/18. Languages of the greater Himalayan region

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurtokha language--Grammar.

Kurtokha language.

Language and languages.

Tibeto-Burman languages--Grammar.

Grammar.

Bhutan.

Physical Description:

xv, 458 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hyslop, Gwendolyn. Grammar of Kurtöp.

ISBN:

9789004292505

9004292500

OCLC:

951955830

Publisher Number:

99971633549