A grammar of Kham / David E. Watters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watters, David, author.

Series:

Cambridge grammatical descriptions.

Cambridge grammatical descriptions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

/Xam language--Grammar.

/Xam language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 477 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjectivals. Its verb morphology has implications for the understanding of the history of the entire Tibeto-Burman family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, deals with all major aspects of the language including segmental phonology, tone, word classes, noun phrases, nominalizations, transitivity alterations, tense-aspect-modality, non-declarative speech acts, and complex sentence structure. It provides copious examples throughout the exposition and includes three short native texts and a vocabulary of more than 400 words, many of them reconstructed for Proto-Kham and Proto-Tibeto-Burman.

Contents:

1. The people and their language

2. Segmental phonology

3. Tonology

4. Nouns and noun morphology

5. Verbs and verb morphology

6. Modifiers and adjectivals

7. Locatives, dimensionals, and temporal adverbs

8. Adverbs and adverbials

9. Minor word classes

10. Noun phrases, nominalizations, and relative clauses

11. Simple clauses, transitivity, and voice

12. Tense, aspects, and modality

13. The modality of certainty, obligation, and unexpected information

14. Non-declarative speech acts

15. Interclausal relations and sentence structure

16. Nominalized verb forms in discourse

17. The Kham verb in historical perspective

18. Texts

19. Vocabulary.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references ([457]-466) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13291-6

1-280-42147-9

0-511-17808-5

0-511-04232-9

0-511-14860-7

0-511-30542-7

0-511-48688-X

0-511-04531-X

OCLC:

56352110