A grammar of Purik Tibetan / by Marius Zemp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zemp, Marius.

Series:

Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 21.

Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Purik language--Grammar.

Purik language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (993 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

In A Grammar of Purik Tibetan , Marius Zemp offers a comprehensive description of the phonologically archaic Tibetan variety spoken in Kargil, the capital of a region called Purik, situated in the state of Jammu andamp; Kashmir, India. This book contains the most thorough and insightful description of the verbal system of a Tibetic language yet written and will be particularly relevant for scholars studying evidentiality. It also includes highly valuable discussions of a syntactically and pragmatically well-defined class of ideophones which Zemp calls “dramatizers” and of prosody – topics which are too often neglected in language descriptions. Finally, this book goes beyond what others have done in that Purik data are used to elucidate our understanding of Classical Tibetan and its origins.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Phonology

Noun Phrases

Sentences

Modification, Intensification, and Dramatization of Sentences

Clause Linkage

Prosody

Back Matter

Appendices

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789004366312

9004366318

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004366312 DOI