A Grammar of Dolakha Newar

Carol Genetti

Carol Genetti

A Grammar of Dolakha Newar

In: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL], 40

De Gruyter Mouton | 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198812

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Georg von der Gabelentz Award 2009

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.

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Carol Genetti , University of California, Santa Barbara.

Frontmatter Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	I
Contents Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	VII
List of figures Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	XVI
List of tables Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	XVII
Abbreviatitions Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	XVIII
Chapter 1. Context Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Chapter 2. Segmental phonetics and phonology Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	32
Chapter 3. Prosody Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	69
Chapter 4. Nouns and noun morphology Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	90
Chapter 5. Personal pronouns, interrogatives, indefinites and demonstratives Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	129
Chapter 6. Verbs and verb morphology Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	154
Chapter 7. Adjectivals Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	195
Chapter 8. Quantifiers Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	214
Chapter 9. Adverbials Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	228
Chapter 10. Particles and clitics of individuation and extension Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	237
Chapter 11. Noun-phrase structure Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	261
Chapter 12. Clause type Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	275
Chapter 13. Grammatical relations Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	307
Chapter 14. Constituent order Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	320
Chapter 15. Clause-level syntactic constructions Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	330
Chapter 16. Tense and aspect Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	354
Chapter 17. Nominalization and related structures Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	387
Chapter 18. Complementation Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	408
Chapter 19. The participial construction Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	428
Chapter 20. Adverbial clauses Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	460
Chapter 21. The sentence: Prosodic and syntactic structuring Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	485
Backmatter Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	516

A Grammar of Dolakha Newar

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