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t-online.de>Title: Manipuri Grammar Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 04 Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Lincom GmbH www.lincom-europa.com http://lincom.at Author: D.N.S Bhat, Central Institute of Indian Languages Author: M.S. Ningomba, Central Institute of Indian Languages Paperback: ISBN: 9586191X, Pages: 480, Price: EUR 77.70 Abstract: Manipuri (called Meiteilon in the language itself) is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kuki-Chin subgroup. The language is spoken primarily in the valley region of the State of Manipur, India (ca. 700,000 speakers, ca. 300,000 speakers in Burma, ca. 100,000 speakers in Assam, ca. 50,000 in Bangladesh and 30,000 in Tripura). The grammar of Manipuri shows a number of interesting typological characteristics: There are only two major lexical categories, namely nouns and verbs, with adjectives and adverbs merging rather unrecognizably with verbs. Inflectional markers also split into two distinct categories, namely nominal and verbal inflections with exclusive membership. The volume contains 14 chapters: Introduction, Phonology, Word-formation, Sentence structure, Nominal category, Use of case suffixes, Verbal category, Directional and deictic verb distinctions, Valency patterns, Tense, aspect and mood, Modyfying constructions, Complementation, Illocutionary distinctions. Lingfield(s): Language Description Subject Language(s): Manipuri (Language Code:MNR) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=8309.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue