A grammar of Tshangla / by Erik E. Andvik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andvik, Erik E.

Series:

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

Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the greater Himalayan region, 1568-6183 ; v. 5/10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tshangla language--Grammar.

Tshangla language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Grammar of Tshangla is the first major linguistic description of Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Bhutan, northeast India, and southwest China. Written from a functional-typological perspective, it contains a wealth of illustrative examples both from elicited data and from spontaneously generated texts. It is a truly comprehensive description, including sections on phonology, lexicon, morphophonemics, morphosyntactic structure, clause-concatenating constructions, as well as discourse-pragmatic features. The volume will be of interest to language students, and to linguists and ethnographic scholars seeking to understand the Bhutanese and South Asian linguistic situation. The large amount of raw language data presented here make this Grammar of Tshangla an indispensable tool for students of Tibeto-Burman comparative linguistics and morphosyntactic theory in general.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / E. Andvik

Chapter One. Introduction / E. Andvik

Chapter Two. Phonology / E. Andvik

Chapter Three. Lexicon And Word Classes / E. Andvik

Chapter Four. Morphophonemics / E. Andvik

Chapter Five. Noun Phrase / E. Andvik

Chapter Six. The Clause, Syntactic Roles And Transitivity / E. Andvik

Chapter Seven. Case Marking / E. Andvik

Chapter Eight. Sentence, Clause And Predicate / E. Andvik

Chapter Nine. Sentence Types And Sentence Moods / E. Andvik

Chapter Ten. Finite Clauses: Tense, Aspect And Mirativity / E. Andvik

Chapter Eleven. Relative Clauses / E. Andvik

Chapter Twelve. Other Embedded Clauses / E. Andvik

Chapter Thirteen. Adverbial Clauses / E. Andvik

Chapter Fourteen. Complementation / E. Andvik

Chapter Fifteen. Concatenation: The Non-Final Construction / E. Andvik

Chapter Sixteen. Daknyi And Anyi / E. Andvik

Chapter Seventeen. Versatile Particles / E. Andvik

Chapter Eighteen. Sentence-Level Pragmatic Devices / E. Andvik

Chapter Nineteen. Summary And Conclusion / E. Andvik

Bibliography / E. Andvik

Index / E. Andvik.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-94997-7

9786612949975

90-474-4062-5

OCLC:

695990228

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004178274.i-490 DOI