A Grammar of Kham

English

Series: Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions Ser.

ISBN: 0511030010

EAN: 9780511030017

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release Date: 11/13/1998

Synopsis: 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.

A Grammar of Kham

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - PDF

Pages: 504