A grammar of Sunwar : descriptive grammar, paradigms, texts and glossary / by Dorte Borchers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borchers, Dörte.

Series:

Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 5/7.

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

Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 5/7. Languages of the greater Himalayan region

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sunwar language--Grammar.

Sunwar language.

Sunwar language--Texts.

Sunwar language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is based on extensive field work by the author and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by sections on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the morphology of Sunwar. Verb paradigms, glossed texts, a Sunwar-English glossary and bibliographical references are also presented. Contact between the Sunwar and Nepali languages resulted in language change, most visible in the verbal system, where the older biactantial agreement system typical for Kiranti languages disappeared and suffix conjugations emerged. This book will interest those interested in descriptive linguistics, language change and languages of South Asia.

Contents:

Preliminary Materials / D. Borchers

Chapter One. Background Information / D. Borchers

Chapter Two. Phonology / D. Borchers

Chapter Three. The Writing System / D. Borchers

Chapter Four. Nominal Morphology / D. Borchers

Chapter Five. Finite Verbs / D. Borchers

Chapter Six. Non-Finite Verbs / D. Borchers

Chapter Seven. Paradigms / D. Borchers

Chapter Eight. Texts / D. Borchers

Chapter Nine. Glossary / D. Borchers

Chapter Ten. Bibliography / D. Borchers.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-315).

ISBN:

1-282-39893-8

9786612398933

90-474-3349-1

OCLC:

607246310

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004167094.i-318 DOI