A Grammar of Dolakha Newar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Grammar of Dolakha Newar write by Carol Genetti. This book was released on 2009-02-26. A Grammar of Dolakha Newar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
How Languages Work
How Languages Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Languages Work write by Carol Genetti. This book was released on 2014-01-23. How Languages Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new and exciting introduction to linguistics, this textbook presents language in all its amazing complexity, while guiding students gently through the basics. Students emerge with an appreciation of the diversity of the world's languages, as well as a deeper understanding of the structure of human language, the ways it is used, and its broader social and cultural context. Chapters introducing the nuts and bolts of language study (phonology, syntax, meaning) are combined with those on the 'functions' of language (discourse, prosody, pragmatics, and language contact), helping students gain a better grasp of how language works in the real world. A rich set of language 'profiles' help students explore the world's linguistic diversity, identify similarities and differences between languages, and encourages them to apply concepts from earlier chapter material. A range of carefully designed pedagogical features encourage student engagement, adopting a step-by-step approach and using study questions and case studies.
A Grammar of Darma
A Grammar of Darma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Grammar of Darma write by Christina Willis Oko. This book was released on 2019-08-26. A Grammar of Darma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Grammar of Darma provides a comprehensive description of this threatened Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India’s Himalayan region. The description is based on a corpus that includes natural discourse and elicited data. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework.
A Grammar of Kurtöp
A Grammar of Kurtöp - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Grammar of Kurtöp write by Gwendolyn Hyslop. This book was released on 2017-02-06. A Grammar of Kurtöp available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A grammar of Kurtöp presents the phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of Kurtöp, a Tibeto-Burman language of northeastern Bhutan. When possible, data are presented in a comparative light, lending insight into the development of phenomena such as tonogenesis and nominalizations.
The Sino-Tibetan Languages
The Sino-Tibetan Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sino-Tibetan Languages write by Graham Thurgood. This book was released on 2016-12-08. The Sino-Tibetan Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few decades. Now in its second edition and fully updated to include new research, The Sino-Tibetan Languages includes overview articles on individual languages, with an emphasis on the less commonly described languages, as well as descriptions and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. There are overviews of the whole family on genetic classification and language contact, syntax and morphology, and also on word order typology. There are also more detailed overview articles on the phonology, morphosyntax, and writing system of just the Sinitic side of the family. Supplementing these overviews are articles on Shanghainese, Cantonese and Mandarin dialects. Tibeto-Burman is reviewed by genetic or geographical sub-group, with overview articles on some of the major groups and areas, and there are also detailed descriptions of 41 individual Tibeto-Burman languages, written by world experts in the field. Designed for students and researchers of Asian languages, The Sino-Tibetan Languages is a detailed overview of the field. This book is invaluable to language students, experts requiring concise, but thorough, information on related languages, and researchers working in historical, typological and comparative linguistics.
