A Grammar of Dolakha Newar

Carol Genetti (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XV, 595 Seiten

2024
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-162931-5 (ISBN)

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A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is the first fully comprehensive reference grammar of a Newar variety. Dolakha Newar is of particular interest as it is member of the mutually unintelligible eastern branch of the family, so allows for an important comparative perspective on this significant Tibeto-Burman language. In addition to a chapter on phonetics and phonology, the book contains a separate chapter on prosody. There are also distinct chapters on each word class, with full discussion of the morphological and syntactic properties of each class. The book provides an extensive study of syntax, including complete chapters on constructions, clause structure, constituent order, grammatical relations, nominalization, complementation, the participial construction, and the complex sentence, as well as a detailed chapter on tense and aspect. Brimming with examples from natural discourse, the book couples rigorous description of the language's structures with full discussion of how the structures are used in connected speech. Each analysis is presented with full argumentation and competing analyses are contrasted and discussed. The result is a rich, readable, and beautifully argued portrait of a language and how it works.

Carol Genetti , University of California, Santa Barbara.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 40
Zusatzinfo	30 b/w ill., 41 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	1134 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Grammars • Grammatiken • Nepal • Newar
ISBN-10	3-11-162931-7 / 3111629317
ISBN-13	978-3-11-162931-5 / 9783111629315
Zustand	Neuware