LEADER 05324nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910785048003321 005 20230620200559.0 010 $a1-282-72169-0 010 $a9786612721694 010 $a90-272-8853-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000034039 035 $a(EBL)623404 035 $a(OCoLC)705533548 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000428193 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11291008 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000428193 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10414161 035 $a(PQKB)10520164 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC623404 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL623404 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10408488 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL272169 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000034039 100 $a20091026h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSinhala /$fDileep Chandralal 210 1$aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia :$cJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.,$d2010. 210 4$aŠ2010 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) 225 1 $aLondon Oriental and African language library,$x1382-3485 ;$v15 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a90-272-3815-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSinhala; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword ; Preface; Romanization and text presentation; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Genealogy and geography; 2. Typological character of the language; 2.1 Structure of simple clauses; 2.2 Nominal modifiers; 2.3 Verbal modifiers; 2.4 Compound and complex sentences; 2.5 Some additional remarks on the structure of the language; Writing system; Sounds; 1. Vowels; 2. Consonants; 3. Consonant clusters; 4. Phonological rules; 4.1. Vowel length; 4.2 Nasal assimilation; 4.3 Other assimilations; 4.4 Velarizing; 4.5 Substituting 327 $a5. Suprasegmental features; 5.1. Syllables; 5.2 Stress; 5.3 Pitch; 6. Rhyming expressions; Words; 1. Vocabulary strata; 2. Word classes; 2.1 Nouns; 2.2 Adjectives; 2.3 Verbs; 3. Minor word classes; 3.1. Adverbs; 3.2 Particles; 3.3 Affixes; 3.4 Interjections; 4. Some noteworthy word classes; 4.1. Numerals; 4.2 Kinship terms; Morphology; 1. Verb morphology; 1.1 Inflectional morphology; 1.1.1 Finite forms; 1.1.2 Non-finite forms; 1.2 Derivational morphology; 2. Noun morphology; 2.1 Nominal inflections; 2.2 Nominal derivations and word formation; 2.2.1 Affixation; 2.2.2 Compounding 327 $a2.2.3 Reduplication; 3. Sandhi; Morphology-syntax interface; Argument structures; 1. Argument structure types; 1.1 Argument structures with inactive predicates; 1.2 Argument types with active predicates; 2. Adjunct noun phrases; 3. Grammatical relations; Noun phrase and verb phrase constructions; 1. Noun phrase; 1.1 Simple noun modifiers; 1.2 Clausal noun modifiers; 2. Verb phrase; 2.1 Declarative, interrogative, and negative; 2.2 Reciprocal verbs and reflexive verbs; 2.3 Modality, aspect, and tense; 2.3.1 Expressions for modality; 2.3.2 Expressions for aspect and tense; 2.3.2.1 Tense 327 $a2.3.2.2 Aspect; Grammatical constructions; 1. Passive construction; 2. Causative construction; 2.1 Lexical causatives; 2.2 Morphological causatives; 2.3 Periphrastic causatives; 2.3.1 Causative benefactive construction; 2.3.2 Simple benefactive construction; 2.3.3 Indirect causative construction; Expanded sentences; 1. Compound sentences; 2. Complex sentences; 2.1 Nominal clauses; 2.2 Adnominal clauses; 2.3 Adverbial clauses; 3. Mixed sentences; Sentence and information structure; 1. The topic-comment organization; 2. The focus structure; Discourse and grammar 327 $a1. Deictic system of demonstratives; 2. The deictic parameter; 3. Functions of deictic expressions; 3.1 Identifying function; 3.2 Acknowledging function; 3.3 Informing function; 3.4 Expressive function; 4. Locative expressions; 5. Demonstratives as discourse deictic; 5.1. Anaphoric use; 5.2 Other uses of discourse deixis; 5.3 Cataphoric use; 6. Encoding discourse units; 7. Tracking the thematic flow of discourse; Pragmatics and grammar; 1. Modality; 1.1 Imperative mood; 1.2 Permissive mood; 1.3 Offer; 1.4 Optative mood; 1.5 Epistemic modality; 2. Interrogation; 3. Negation; 4. Social deixis and honorifics 330 $aSinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Although the earliest surviving literature in Sinhala dates from the 8th century A.D. its written tradition has traced a longer path of more than 2000 years. 410 0$aLondon Oriental and African language library ;$v15. 606 $aSinhalese language$xGrammar 606 $aIndo-Aryan languages, Modern 615 0$aSinhalese language$xGrammar. 615 0$aIndo-Aryan languages, Modern. 676 $a491.4/85 700 $aChandralal$b Dileep$01469355 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785048003321 996 $aSinhala$93680818 997 $aUNINA