LEADER 03741nam 22006494a 450 001 9910782194103321 005 20230914205912.0 010 $a1-282-19380-5 010 $a9786612193804 010 $a3-11-019727-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110197273 035 $a(CKB)1000000000520526 035 $a(EBL)325680 035 $a(OCoLC)191935720 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164954 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153341 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164954 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10124760 035 $a(PQKB)10722379 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC325680 035 $a(DE-B1597)32198 035 $a(OCoLC)741344362 035 $a(OCoLC)853248310 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110197273 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL325680 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10194848 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL219380 035 $a(PPN)175226687 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000520526 100 $a20031030h20032003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA grammar of Qiang $ewith annotated texts and glossary /$fRandy J. LaPolla with Chenglong Huang 210 1$aBerlin ;$aNew York :$cMouton de Gruyter,$d2003. 210 4$aŠ2003 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 445 pages) $cillustrations, map 225 1 $aMouton grammar library ;$v31 311 0 $a3-11-017829-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [433]-442) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tTable of Contents --$tChapter 1. Introduction --$tChapter 2. The phonological system --$tChapter 3. The noun phrase --$tChapter 4. The verb complex --$tChapter 5. The clause and complex structures --$tTexts --$tEnglish-Qiang glossary arranged by semantic field --$tBack matter 330 $aThis book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province. It belongs to the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman (one of the two major branches of Sino-Tibetan). The dialect presented in the book is the Northern Qiang variety spoken in Ronghong Village, Yadu Township, Chibusu District, Mao County. This book, the first book-length description of the Qiang language in English, is the result of many years of work on the language, and is as typologically comprehensive as possible. It includes not only the reference grammar, but also an ethnological overview, several fully analyzed texts (mostly traditional stories), and an annotated glossary. The language is verb final, agglutinative (prefixing and suffixing), and has both head-marking and dependent marking morphology. The phonology of Qiang is quite complex, with 39 consonants at seven points of articulation, plus complex consonant clusters, both in initial and final position, as well as vowel harmony, vowel length distinctions, and a set of retroflexed vowels. The grammar also is complex, with a paradigm of eight direction marking verbal prefixes, and two paradigms for person marking, one for actor, one for non-actor, and a variety of other verbal prefixes and suffixes, as well as definite and number marking on nouns. Noun phrases take classifiers and relational pospositions as well. 410 0$aMouton grammar library ;$v31. 606 $aKhyang language$xGrammar 615 0$aKhyang language$xGrammar. 676 $a495/.4 700 $aLaPolla$b Randy J$0165462 701 $aHuang$b Chenglong$0688851 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782194103321 996 $aA grammar of Qiang$93822748 997 $aUNINA