GRAMMAR OF KHAM (Adobe Reader) ebook download David E. Watters

A Grammar of Kham

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. This book will be a valuable resource for typologists and general linguists alike.

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Title of ebook: A Grammar of Kham
ISBN: 9780511030017
parent-ISBN: 9780521812450
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 2459 kb
Pages: 504
Published: 11-1998
Released online for download: 11-13-1998
Author of eBook: Watters, David E.

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