A grammar of Atong / by Seino van Breugel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breugel, Seino van.

Series:

Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; v. 5.

Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, 1877-4083 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tibeto-Burman languages--Grammar.

Tibeto-Burman languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (700 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Atong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India and Bangladesh. Seino van Breugel provides a deep and thorough coverage and analysis of all major areas of the grammar, which makes this book of great interest and value to general linguists and typologists as well as area specialists. Alongside an Atong-English dictionary and five fully-glossed Atong texts recorded during extensive fieldwork, this work also provides a sizable ethnolinguistic introduction to the speakers and their culture. Of particular interest is the pragmatic approach taken for the grammatical analysis. Whereas the form of an utterance provides some clue as to its possible meaning, inference is always needed to arrive at the most relevant interpretation within the context in which the utterance occurs. \'This is a very important book for South Asian and Sino-Tibetan linguistic scholarship. Of the 200 languages of Northeast India, only a handful have been documented; the present work brings the number of full-scale modern grammars for these languages to six. Thus it represents a unique and extremely valuable contribution.\' Professor Scott DeLancey University of Oregon \'This is a solid academic work which makes a huge contribution to the field. There is no other detailed account of this particular language, and it is highly doubtful that anyone will write something more comprehensive in the future.\' Dr Willem de Reuse University of North Texas

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1 The Atong Language and its Speakers

2 Phonology

3 Word Classes: An Overview

4 Verbs and Verb/Nouns

5 Adjectives

6 Nouns, the Noun Phrase and the Nominal Clump

7 Kinship Terms

8 Deictic Words

9 Interrogatives

10 Indefinite Proforms

11 The Quantifier Phrase, Numerals and Other Quantifiers

12 Classifiers

13 Postpositions

14 Discourse Connectives

15 Other Word Classes

16 Sub-Class-Changing Derivation

17 Phrasal Enclitics

18 Semantic-Role Marking

19 Pragmatic-Role and Specificity Enclitics

20 The Predicate

21 Derivational Suffixes

22 Predicate Enclitics

23 The Clause, Clause Types and Illocutionary Force

24 The Factitive Enclitic , Subordination and Nominalisation

25 Goal-Marked Predicates

26 Temporal-Location and Conditional Clauses

27 Concomitant-Action Clauses

28 Adverbial and Sequential Clauses

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004258938

9004258930

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004258938 DOI