LSASL 85: A Reference Grammar of Ersu, a Tibeto-Burman Language of China

Product no.: ISBN 9783862886951

228.00 €

Price incl. VAT, plus delivery

Description

A Reference Grammar of Ersu, a Tibeto-Burman Language of China

Zhang Sihong

Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, James Cook University

Ersu is an underdocumented Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the southwest of China. It is a head-marking, verb-final, tonal and agglutinative language with an isolating tendency. It has a complex phonological system. Reduplication, compounding, affixation and cliticization are attested in word formation. The canonical constituent order of a simple clause is AOV/SV. However, the syntactic constituent order may also vary due to pragmatic motivations. “Tail-head” linkage strategy is frequently used in discourse. Ellipses occur quite often in speaking and a speech act participant is seldom mentioned. “Topic-comment” constructions occur with high frequency.

The grammar consists of 14 chapters that covers almost all the respects of the language such as phonology, word classes, nouns and nominal morphology, noun phrases, numeral systems, nominal and verbal action classification systems, verbs and verb phrases, aspect system, mood and modality, the expression of knowledge, clause types and clause combining, discourse analysis and discourse organization, language change and language endangerment.

The production of this book is based on the author’s PhD thesis, which was commented as a model grammar for a Tibeto-Burman language by one of the examiners. The book fills an important lacuna in the descriptive literature of linguistic typology.

ISBN 9783862886951 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 85. 602pp. 2016.

Customers who bought this product also bought

LW/D 57: Comprehensive Ket Dictionary - Большой словарь кетского языка 1 180.80 € *	LW/D 58: Comprehensive Ket Dictionary - Большой словарь кетского языка 2 190.80 € *	LW/D 62: Comparative Nivkh Dictionary 170.00 € *
LW/D 61: A Tsum Lexicon 170.00 € *	LWM 507: A Grammar of Chhatthare Limbu 88.80 € *

* Prices incl. VAT, plus delivery

Browse this category: LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics (LSASL)

Categories catalogue African, Afroasiatic, Asian, Australian, Austro... LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics (LSASL) LSASL 85: A Reference Grammar of Ersu, a Tibeto-Burman Language of China

LSASL 85: A Reference Grammar of Ersu, a Tibeto-Burman Language of China

Customers who bought this product also bought