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Verbal semantics in a Tibeto-Burman language : the Bodo verb / Prafulla Basumatary.
Van Pelt Library PL4001.B31 B27 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Basumatary, Prafulla, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Contemporary studies in descriptive linguistics ; v. 42.
- Contemporary Studies In Descriptive Linguistics ; vol. 42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bodo language--Verb.
- Bodo language.
- Bodo language--Grammar.
- Bodo (Indic people)--Languages.
- Bodo (Indic people).
- Language and languages.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.
- India--Languages.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 267 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, [2017]
- Summary:
- The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive description of the verbal system of Bodo, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, particularly Assam. The description is primarily based on a 1.2-million-word Bodo corpus, both written and spoken, involving different genres. This is the first extensive work solely devoted to the description of the Bodo verb. The book provides a thorough description of the Bodo verb that will be comprehensive enough to be of use to Tibeto-Burmanists, on the one hand, and to language typologists, on the other. Second, if addresses certain pedagogic issues relating to the teaching of the Bodo language in schools. The book encompasses a description of verbal roots, formation of verbal stems, inflection of verbal stems, and distribution of various verb forms in different types of douses, such as independent clauses, embedded clauses, and chained clauses. Finally, a pedagogic perspective is provided with reference to the morphosyntactic aspects of the Bodo verb. This book was the winner of the 2016 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Linguistics. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Language and People 1
- Chapter 2 Literature Review 23
- Chapter 3 The Verb Root 35
- Chapter 4 The Verb Stem 61
- Chapter 5 Verbal Inflections 93
- Chapter 6 Complex Verbal Constructions 135
- Chapter 7 Clausal Constructions 173
- Chapter 8 Pedagogy and the Bodo Verb 215
- Chapter 9 Concluding Statement 243.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781787073395
- 1787073394
- OCLC:
- 989123678
- Publisher Number:
- 99973140954
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