A Grammar of Limbu
Grammar of Limbu
1st Edition
Published on 20. July 2011
XXVIII, 565 pages
978-3-11-084681-2 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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10 plates.
10 plates.
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18,47 MB
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978-3-11-084681-2 (9783110846812)
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George van Driem
A Grammar of Limbu
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Content
- Intro
- Abbreviations
- Transliteration and transcription
- Maps
- 0. INTRODUCTION
- 0.1. The Limbus
- 0.2. The language
- 0.3. This grammar
- 1. PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS
- 1.1. Limbu phonemes and the native phoneme system
- 1.2. Allophones and phonetic description of Limbu phonemes
- 1.3. The Limbu word
- 1.4. Assimilation and dissimilation
- 1.5. The orthography
- 2. NOMINAL MORPHOLOGY
- 2.1. Adjectives
- 2.2. Pronouns
- 2.3. Dualization and pluralization
- 2.4. Cases or postfixes
- 2.5. Compounding
- 3. THE VERBS 'TO BE'
- 3.1. The identity operator
- 3.2. Existential 'to be' and 'not to be'
- 3.3. Locational 'to be'
- 3.4. Adhesive 'to be'
- 3.5. Attributive 'to be'
- 3.6. Inchoative 'to be'
- 4. MORPHEMIC ANALYSIS OF THE SIMPLICIA
- 4.1. Verb stems
- 4.2. Conjugations and irregularity
- 4.3. Morphophonology
- 4.4. Person marker morphemes
- 4.5. Negation (non-nexal)
- 5. ASPECT AND ASPECTIVIZERS
- 5.1. Aspect
- 5.2. The imperious future
- 5.3. Aspectivizers
- 6. MODE
- 6.1. Optative
- 6.2. Conditional
- 6.3. Irrealis and the neverthelessive
- 6.4. Interrogative
- 7. GERUNDS AND PERIPHRASTIC TENSES
- 7.1. The gerunds
- 7.2. The focused continuous
- 7.3. The spatially defocused continuous
- 7.4. The temporally defocused continuous
- 7.5. The periphrastic perfect tenses
- 8. OTHER VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS
- 8.1. Adhortative
- 8.2. Imperative
- 8.3. The nominalizer suffix -pa
- 8.4. The active participle and its negative
- 8.5. The passive participle
- 8.6. The infinitive
- 8.7. The supine
- 8.8. The passivizer -tetma?
- 8.9. The impersonal inclusive
- 8.10. The polite inclusive
- 9. SUBORDINATION
- 9.1. Indirect speech and direct quotes
- 9.2. The subordination pha?a?
- 9.3. The subordinator -phelle
- 9.4. -ille subordination
- 9.5. Concessive clauses with g?r?
- 9.6. Subordination with -ten
- 9.7. Subordination with -kusi?, ekke
- 9.8. Reported speech
- 9.9. Exigency po?ma?
- 9.10. Clause-final adverbs and mood particles
- 10. CAUSATIVES AND ERGATIVITY
- 10.1. Improductive causatives
- 10.2. Productive, periphrastic causatives
- 10.3. Transitivity and actant coding
- APPENDICES
- I. TEXTS
- 1. Culinary
- 2. Everyday Life
- 3. Myth and Legend
- 4. Fable
- 5. Anecdote
- 6. Riddles
- II. PARADIGMS
- 1. Regular verbs
- 2. Irregular verbs
- 2.1. Regular apophony: intransitives
- 2.2. Irregular apophony: intransitives
- 2.3. Regular apophony: transitives
- III. LIMBU-ENGLISH GLOSSARY
- IV. ANTHOLOGY OF KIRANTI SCRIPTS
- References
- List of Plates
