A Grammar of Prinmi
Based on the Central Dialect of Northwest Yunnan, China
Published on 6. June 2014
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-90-04-27782-3 (ISBN)
Description
A Grammar of Prinmi represents the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the P?m? Nationality and the Zang Nationality (in Mul?, Sichuan) in southwest China. Prinmi belongs to the Qiangic branch and is closely related to the extinct language of Tangut.
Picus Ding examines in the grammar the phonology (both segmental and suprasegmental), morphology, syntax and information structure of Prinmi, with two sample texts and an English-Prinmi glossary provided in appendices. Some noteworthy features of Prinmi include a wealth of clitics (appearing as proclitic, enclitic, mesoclitic or endoclitic), a lexical tone system akin to Japanese, and a collection of existential verbs that discriminates concreteness, animacy, and location.
Picus Ding examines in the grammar the phonology (both segmental and suprasegmental), morphology, syntax and information structure of Prinmi, with two sample texts and an English-Prinmi glossary provided in appendices. Some noteworthy features of Prinmi include a wealth of clitics (appearing as proclitic, enclitic, mesoclitic or endoclitic), a lexical tone system akin to Japanese, and a collection of existential verbs that discriminates concreteness, animacy, and location.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-27782-3 (9789004277823)
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Picus S. Ding, Ph.D. (1998), Australian National University, teaches at the School of Humanities of the University of Hong Kong. His research and publications concern largely languages of China and languages in the Sinosphere, especially minority languages.