A grammar of Kham / / David E. Watters

• Autore: Watters David
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxv, 477 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 495/.49
• Soggetto topico: /Xam language - Grammar
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A grammar of Kham
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783082103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge grammatical descriptions.