A grammar of Japhug Guillaume Jacques.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacques, Guillaume, author.

Series:

Comprehensive Grammar Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1596 p.)

Place of Publication:

Language Science Press 2021

[s.l.] : Language Science Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba district, Sichuan province, China. This grammar is the result of nearly 20 years of fieldwork on one variety of Japhug, based on a corpus of narratives and conversations, a large part of which is available from the Pangloss Collection. It covers the whole grammar of the language, and the text examples provide a unique insight into Gyalrong culture. It was written with a general linguistics audience in mind, and should prove useful not only to specialists of Trans-Himalayan historical linguistics and typologists, but also to anthropologists doing research in Gyalrong areas. It is also hoped that some readers will use it to learn Japhug and pursue research on this fascinating language in the future.

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783961103058

3961103054

OCLC:

1250413147

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5281/10.5281/zenodo.4548232

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access