Davide Watters

A Grammar of Kham

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 861g
• ISBN-13: 9780521120517
• ISBN-10: 0521120519
• Artikelnr.: 27064844

Inhaltsangabe

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, aspect and modality
13. The modality of certainty, obligation, 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
References.