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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792534303321

Autore

Hyslop Gwendolyn

Titolo

A grammar of Kurtöp / / by Gwendolyn Hyslop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]

ISBN

90-04-32874-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (474 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Brill's Tibetan studies library ; Languages of the greater Himalayan region ; v. 5/18.

Disciplina

495.4

Soggetti

Kurtokha language - Grammar

Language and languages

Tibeto-Burman languages - Grammar

Bhutan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Contrastive Phonology -- Non-contrastive Phonology -- Word Classes and Word-formation Processes -- Lexicon -- Syntactic Overview -- The Noun Phrase -- Post-head Nominal Modifiers -- Proforms -- Case-Marking -- The Verbal Complex -- Copulas and Non-verbal Predication -- Nominalization -- Tense/Aspect -- Evidentiality, Mirativity, and Related Categories -- Multi-clause Constructions -- Negation and Non-declarative Speech Acts -- Rhetorical Devices -- References -- Appendix A: Texts -- Appendix B: Abbreviations and Typological Features -- Appendix C: A Guide to the Examples -- Appendix D: Database of Recordings and Speakers from which Examples are drawn -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A grammar of Kurtöp is the first descriptive grammar of Kurtöp, a threatened language of Bhutan, and the only reference grammar of any East Bodish language. The East Bodish languages are a relatively unstudied branch of the larger Tibeto-Burman family, situated in Bhutan and neighbouring regions in Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh. The chapters introduce the language and the people who speak in a historical context and then go on to detail the synchronic and diachronic phonology, discuss word classes and cause structure, morphosyntax and syntax, and illustrate rich system of evidentiality



and related categories. The book will be of interest to Tibeto-Burmanists, historical linguists and those interested in the prehistory of the eastern Himalayas, and to typologists.