A Grammar of Tundra Nenets
-
Irina Nikolaeva
About this book
The book is the first substantial description of Tundra Nenets, a highly endangered Uralic language spoken in Western Siberia and the north of European Russia, destined for the international linguistic community. Its purpose is to provide a thorough documentation of all of the major grammatical phenomena in the language. The grammar particularly emphasizes the description of syntax, because this has traditionally been a very neglected area of Nenets studies. Many syntactic aspects have not received a systematic treatment in the existing literature or have not been addressed at all. Since the existing works are not easily available, incomplete, or idiosyncratically presented, Tundra Nenets syntax has played little or no role in the considerations of modern linguists, whether more descriptively or theoretically inclined. The book is largely descriptive: it is not intended to address theoretical questions per se and the description is not meant to be formulated within a particular framework. However, it identifies and discusses issues which are of broad typological and theoretical interest. The description is richly exemplified. Most of the cited examples are the result of fieldwork conducted by the in various locations. They are sentences produced by native speakers either spontaneously or elicited in response to questions posed in Russian. Other examples are excerpts from original texts.
Supplementary Materials
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
I -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Acknowledgment
V -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Table of contents
VII -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Abbreviations
XV -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 1. Introduction
1 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 2. Phonology
17 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 3. Grammatical classes
29 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 4. Nominal inflection
57 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 5. Verbal inflection
78 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 6. Clitics and multi-based affixes
116 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 7. Noun Phrases
141 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 8. Adjectival, adverbial and postpositional phrases
174 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 9. Syntax of simple clauses
194 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 10. Valence patterns and alternations
224 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 11. Non-verbal predicates
250 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 12. Non-declarative clause types and negation
265 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 13. Overview of dependent clauses
283 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 14. Relative clauses
315 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 15. Complement clauses
341 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 16. Adverbial clauses
367 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 17. Anaphoric relations
386 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 18. Coordination
414 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter 19. Texts
432 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
References
496 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
499
-
Manufacturer information:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Straße 13
10785 Berlin
productsafety@degruyterbrill.com
