A Grammar of Dolakha Newar

Carol Genetti

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2007

A Grammar of Dolakha Newar

Carol Genetti

Volume 40 in the series Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198812

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About this book

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.

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

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguistics (Typology, Himalayan Linguistics).
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 595
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 30
- Tables: 41
Keywords: Grammatiken; Nepal; Newar

eBook

Published: February 26, 2009
ISBN: 9783110198812

Hardcover

Published: April 20, 2007
ISBN: 9783110193039