Sinhala / Dileep Chandralal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chandralal, Dileep.

Series:

London Oriental and African language library ; 15.

London Oriental and African language library, 1382-3485 ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sinhalese language--Grammar.

Sinhalese language.

Indo-Aryan languages, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Although the earliest surviving literature in Sinhala dates from the 8th century A.D. its written tradition has traced a longer path of more than 2000 years.

Contents:

Sinhala; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword ; Preface; Romanization and text presentation; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Genealogy and geography; 2. Typological character of the language; 2.1 Structure of simple clauses; 2.2 Nominal modifiers; 2.3 Verbal modifiers; 2.4 Compound and complex sentences; 2.5 Some additional remarks on the structure of the language; Writing system; Sounds; 1. Vowels; 2. Consonants; 3. Consonant clusters; 4. Phonological rules; 4.1. Vowel length; 4.2 Nasal assimilation; 4.3 Other assimilations; 4.4 Velarizing; 4.5 Substituting

5. Suprasegmental features; 5.1. Syllables; 5.2 Stress; 5.3 Pitch; 6. Rhyming expressions; Words; 1. Vocabulary strata; 2. Word classes; 2.1 Nouns; 2.2 Adjectives; 2.3 Verbs; 3. Minor word classes; 3.1. Adverbs; 3.2 Particles; 3.3 Affixes; 3.4 Interjections; 4. Some noteworthy word classes; 4.1. Numerals; 4.2 Kinship terms; Morphology; 1. Verb morphology; 1.1 Inflectional morphology; 1.1.1 Finite forms; 1.1.2 Non-finite forms; 1.2 Derivational morphology; 2. Noun morphology; 2.1 Nominal inflections; 2.2 Nominal derivations and word formation; 2.2.1 Affixation; 2.2.2 Compounding

2.2.3 Reduplication; 3. Sandhi; Morphology-syntax interface; Argument structures; 1. Argument structure types; 1.1 Argument structures with inactive predicates; 1.2 Argument types with active predicates; 2. Adjunct noun phrases; 3. Grammatical relations; Noun phrase and verb phrase constructions; 1. Noun phrase; 1.1 Simple noun modifiers; 1.2 Clausal noun modifiers; 2. Verb phrase; 2.1 Declarative, interrogative, and negative; 2.2 Reciprocal verbs and reflexive verbs; 2.3 Modality, aspect, and tense; 2.3.1 Expressions for modality; 2.3.2 Expressions for aspect and tense; 2.3.2.1 Tense

2.3.2.2 Aspect; Grammatical constructions; 1. Passive construction; 2. Causative construction; 2.1 Lexical causatives; 2.2 Morphological causatives; 2.3 Periphrastic causatives; 2.3.1 Causative benefactive construction; 2.3.2 Simple benefactive construction; 2.3.3 Indirect causative construction; Expanded sentences; 1. Compound sentences; 2. Complex sentences; 2.1 Nominal clauses; 2.2 Adnominal clauses; 2.3 Adverbial clauses; 3. Mixed sentences; Sentence and information structure; 1. The topic-comment organization; 2. The focus structure; Discourse and grammar

1. Deictic system of demonstratives; 2. The deictic parameter; 3. Functions of deictic expressions; 3.1 Identifying function; 3.2 Acknowledging function; 3.3 Informing function; 3.4 Expressive function; 4. Locative expressions; 5. Demonstratives as discourse deictic; 5.1. Anaphoric use; 5.2 Other uses of discourse deixis; 5.3 Cataphoric use; 6. Encoding discourse units; 7. Tracking the thematic flow of discourse; Pragmatics and grammar; 1. Modality; 1.1 Imperative mood; 1.2 Permissive mood; 1.3 Offer; 1.4 Optative mood; 1.5 Epistemic modality; 2. Interrogation; 3. Negation; 4. Social deixis and honorifics

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612721694

9781282721692

1282721690

9789027288530

9027288534

OCLC:

705533548