1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002643030403321

Autore

Hopwood, Anthony G.

Titolo

Accounting from the outside / by Hopwood A.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Garland Publishing, 1988

Locazione

ECA

Collocazione

2-5-37-RA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450326503321

Autore

Watters David

Titolo

A grammar of Kham / / David E. Watters [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-13291-6

1-280-42147-9

0-511-17808-5

0-511-04232-9

0-511-14860-7

0-511-30542-7

0-511-48688-X

0-511-04531-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 477 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge grammatical descriptions

Disciplina

495/.49

Soggetti

Kham language - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references ([457]-466) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. The people and their language -- ; 2. Segmental phonology -- ; 3. Tonology -- ; 4. Nouns and noun morphology -- ; 5. Verbs and verb



morphology -- ; 6. Modifiers and adjectivals -- ; 7. Locatives, dimensionals, and temporal adverbs -- ; 8. Adverbs and adverbials -- ; 9. Minor word classes -- ; 10. Noun phrases, nominalizations, and relative clauses -- ; 11. Simple clauses, transitivity, and voice -- ; 12. Tense, aspects, and modality -- ; 13. The modality of certainty, obligation, and unexpected information -- ; 14. Non-declarative speech acts -- ; 15. Interclausal relations and sentence structure -- ; 16. Nominalized verb forms in discourse -- ; 17. The Kham verb in historical perspective -- ; 18. Texts -- ; 19. Vocabulary.

Sommario/riassunto

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.