A grammar of Yakkha
This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on original fieldwork in the Yakkha community...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Language Science Press
2015
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| Colección: | Studies in Diversity Linguistics ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428049206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The Yakkha language and its speakers
- Chapter 3: Phonology
- Chapter 4: Pronouns, demonstratives, quantifiers, numerals, interrogatives
- Chapter 5: The noun phrase
- Chapter 6: Adjectives and adverbs
- Chapter 7: The geomorphic orientation system
- Chapter 8: Verbal inflection
- Chapter 9: Noun-verb predicates
- Chapter 10: Complex predication
- Chapter 11: Transitivity
- Chapter 12: Simple clauses
- Chapter 13: Nominalization and relativization
- Chapter 14: Adverbial clause linkage
- Chapter 15: Complementation
- Chapter 16: Connectives on the text level
- Chapter 17: Discourse particles and interjections
- Appendix A: Texts
- Appendix B: Yakkha kinship terms
- Appendix C: Index of Yakkha formatives
