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A Grammar of Bunan
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Manuel Widmer
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
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This book provides a comprehensive grammatical description of Bunan, a Tibeto-Burman languages that is spoken by approximately 4,000 people in the North Indian Himalayas. The grammar offers a systematic analysis of a wide range of grammatical phenomena, ranging from phonetics and phonology to complex syntactic constructions. Moreover, it contains a wealth of historical annotations, annotated texts, and a Bunan-English glossary.
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Manuel Widmer, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Table of contents
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List of tables
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List of figures
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List of abbreviations
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1 Preliminaries
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2 Phonetics and phonology
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3 Morphophonology
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4 Nouns and nominal morphology
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5 Pronouns and demonstratives
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6 Adjectives
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7 Quantifiers
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8 The structure of the noun phrase
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9 Discourse clitics and discourse particles
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10 Interjections, terms of address, and conventionalized communicative expressions
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11 Adverbs
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12 Verbs
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13 Epistemic marking and syntactic agreement
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14 The copulas
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15 Finite inflection
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16 The clause
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17 Grammatical relations
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18 Nondeclarative speech acts
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19 Combined clauses
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20 Appendix A: Texts
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21 Appendix B: Bunan word list
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References
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Index
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eBook published on:
September 11, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9783110766295
Hardcover published on:
September 11, 2017
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110475258
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Front matter:
26
Main content:
777
Audience(s) for this book
Historical and Theoretical Linguists, Typologists, Anthropologists, Tibetologists
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