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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810903203321

Autore

Sun Hongkai

Titolo

A grammar of Anong : language death under intense contact / / by Hongkai Sun and Guangkun Liu ; translated, annotated, and supplemented by Fengxiang Li, Ela Thurgood, Graham Thurgood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-60237-3

9786612602375

90-474-3030-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Collana

Brill's Tibetan studies library, , 1568-6183 ; ; v. 5/9

Classificazione

18.85

Altri autori (Persone)

LiuGuangkun

LiFengxiang

ThurgoodEla

ThurgoodGraham

Disciplina

495/.4

Soggetti

Tulung language

Tulung (Tibeto-Burman people) - China - Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Sun , Liu , LI , Thurgood and Thurgood -- Chapter One. Introduction / Sun , Liu , LI , Thurgood and Thurgood -- Chapter Two. Phonology / Sun , Liu , LI , Thurgood and Thurgood -- Chapter Three. Lexicon / Sun , Liu , LI , Thurgood and Thurgood -- Chapter Four. Syntax / Sun , Liu , LI , Thurgood and Thurgood -- Chapter Five. The Restructuring Of Anong / Sun , Liu , LI , Thurgood and Thurgood -- Chapter Six. Anong In Tibeto-Burman / Sun , Liu , LI , Thurgood and Thurgood -- Appendix A. The Anong Lexicon / Sun , Liu , LI , Thurgood and Thurgood -- Appendix B. Texts / Sun , Liu , LI , Thurgood and Thurgood -- Appendix C. An Acoustic Look At Anong / Sun , Liu , LI , Thurgood and Thurgood -- Index / Sun , Liu , LI , Thurgood and Thurgood.

Sommario/riassunto

A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu. In the almost fifty years, Sun Hongkai has been documenting



the Anong language of Yunnan China, it has undergone radical, contact-induced changes. The language of the less than forty remaining speakers is quite different than the Anong of forty years ago. Under intense contact with Lisu, major change has occurred in the language, much of it documented in this work of Sun's. The English edition is a reworking of the original Chinese version, providing annotation, an expanded lexicon, and an appendix that contains an instrumental study of the language.