Spoken Sibe : morphology of the inflected parts of speech / Veronika Zikmundová ; reviewed by Bayarma Khabtagaeva-Kempf, Ph.D., Cheng Zhi, Ph.D., layout and cover design Jan Serých.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zikmundová, Veronika, author.

Contributor:

Khabtagaeva-Kempf, Bayarma, reviewer.

Zhi, Cheng, reviewer.

Serých, Jan, designer, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sibo language--Morphology.

Sibo language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Prague, [Czech Republic] : Karolinum Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At present, the Sibe language is the only oral variety of Manchu which is actually in use. With some 20,000 to 30,000 speakers it is also the most widely spoken Tungusic language. The Sibe people, who live at the North-Western border of the present-day Sinkiang Uyghur Autonomous province of China, are descendants of the garrison men of the Manchu army from 18th century. They were sent there after the area was annexed by the Manchus with the task to guard the newly established border between the Manchu Empire and Russia. Being soldiers of an alien army they remained isolated from the indigenous Turkic and Mongolian peoples, which resulted in an allmost miraculous preservation of the language.In the 1990s, when the oral varieties of Manchu in historical Manchuria became either extinct or at the verge of extinction, Sibe kept surviving as a language spoken by all generations of Sibe people in the Chapchal Sibe autonomous county, and by the middle and older generations in virtually all other Sibe settlements of Xinjiang. By now, although the percentage of Sibe-Chinese bilingualism is high, the number of speakers, including young people, is still significantly great.The present description of the grammatical functioning of the two main inflected word classes - nouns and verbs - is documented by examples and sample texts, and provided with the basic general information about the Sibe language and its speakers.The intention of this work is to offer the reader a more complex image of the Sibe language as it is used at present on its historical and cultural territory.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of abbreviations""; ""0 Introduction""; ""1 Characteristics of spoken Sibe""; ""1.1 Notes on the phonetics and phonology""; ""1.1.1 Problems of the phonological description of Sibe""; ""1.1.2 Previous research of the Sibe phonemic system""; ""1.1.3 List of sounds in spoken Sibe ""; ""1.2 Questions of transcription""; ""1.3 Remarks on the Sibe vocabulary""; ""1.3.1 Personal names""; ""1.3.2 Children's expressions""; ""1.3.3 Vicarious expressions""; ""1.4 Remarks on syntax negation""; ""1.4.1 The negative particle aqÅ"̄"; ""1.4.2 The negative particle vaq""

""1.5 Word classes in spoken Sibe """"1.5.1 Brief characteristics of the parts of speech ""; ""2 The Noun""; ""2.1 The category of number""; ""2.1.1 Generic number""; ""2.1.2 Partial number""; ""2.1.3 Specific forms of the use of the partial number""; ""2.1.4 Expressing plurality through lexical means""; ""2.2 The category of case ""; ""2.2.1 Nominative""; ""2.2.2 Genitive""; ""2.2.3 Dative-locative""; ""2.2.4 Accusative""; ""2.2.5 Ablative""; ""2.2.6 Lative""; ""2.2.7 Instrumental-sociative""; ""3 Qualitative nouns""; ""3.1 Qualitative nouns formed by derivational suffixes""

""3.1.2 Qualitative nouns in the function of an attribute""""3.1.3 Qualitative nouns determining verbs""; ""3.1.4 Specific grammatical categories of qualitative nouns""; ""3.1.5 Other ways of expressing quality, appearance, etc.""; ""3.1.6 Vicarious qualitative nouns and other anaphoric expressions""; ""4 Pronouns""; ""4.1 Personal pronouns""; ""4.1.1 Personal pronouns in nominative""; ""4.1.2 Personal pronouns in genitive""; ""4.1.3 Personal pronouns in dative""; ""4.1.4 Personal pronouns in accusative""; ""4.1.5 Personal pronouns in ablative""; ""4.1.6 Personal pronouns in lative""

""4.1.7 Personal pronouns in instrumental-sociative""""4.2 Remarks on the personal pronouns""; ""4.3 Demonstrative pronouns""; ""4.3.1 The demonstrative pronouns É?r and tÉ?r""; ""4.3.2 The pronouns mÉ?r and mÉ?tÉ?r""; ""4.3.3 The pronouns É?k and ;sÉ?kÉ?iâ€?/skÉ?i""; ""4.4 Interrogative pronouns""; ""4.4.1 The pronoun ai""; ""4.4.2 The pronoun ya which as an attribute""; ""4.4.3 The pronoun yam (< ya É?m which one)""; ""4.4.4 The pronoun yamkÉ?n (which one an independent part of speech)""; ""4.4.5 The pronoun vÉ? (who)""

""4.5 Notes on demonstrative and interrogative pronouns""""5 Numerals""; ""5.1 The cardinal numerals""; ""5.2 The ordinal numerals""; ""5.3 The idiomatic use of numerals""; ""6 Spatials""; ""6.1 The spatial system in written Manchu""; ""6.1.1 The spatial roots in written Manchu""; ""6.1.2 The spatial suffixes in written Manchu""; ""6.1.3 Meaning and use of the Manchu spatial suffixes""; ""6.2 The spatial system in spoken Sibe""; ""6.2.1 Spatial roots in spoken Sibe""; ""6.2.2 Spatial suffixes in spoken Sibe""; ""6.2.3 The use of Sibe spatials""; ""6.2.4 The suffix -bi""

""6.2.5 The suffix -Å?""

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ISBN:

9788024630434

8024630435

9788024624891

8024624893

OCLC:

875999562