A Grammar of Kham - Couverture rigide

Watters, David E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521812453 ISBN 13 : 9780521812450

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjectivals. Its verb morphology has implications for the understanding of the history of the entire Tibeto-Burman family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, deals with all major aspects of the language including segmental phonology, tone, word classes, noun phrases, nominalizations, transitivity alterations, tense-aspect-modality, non-declarative speech acts, and complex sentence structure. It provides copious examples throughout the exposition and includes three short native texts and a vocabulary of more than 400 words, many of them reconstructed for Proto-Kham and Proto-Tibeto-Burman.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521812453
• ISBN 13: 9780521812450
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 504