Date: 02-May-2007 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: A Grammar of Dolakha Newar: Genetti
Title: A Grammar of Dolakha Newar
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 40
Published: 2007
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
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Author: Carol Genetti
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110193039 Pages: 595 Price: Europe EURO 148.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110193039 Pages: 595 Price: U.S. $ 199.80 Comment: for USA, Canada & Mexico
Abstract:
A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is the first fully comprehensive reference grammar of a Newar variety. Dolakha Newar is of particular interest as it is member of the mutually unintelligible eastern branch of the family, so allows for an important comparative perspective on this significant Tibeto-Burman language. In addition to a chapter on phonetics and phonology, the book contains a separate chapter on prosody. There are also distinct chapters on each word class, with full discussion of the morphological and syntactic properties of each class. The book provides an extensive study of syntax, including complete chapters on constructions, clause structure, constituent order, grammatical relations, nominalization, complementation, the participial construction, and the complex sentence, as well as a detailed chapter on tense and aspect.
Brimming with examples from natural discourse, the book couples rigorous description of the language's structures with full discussion of how the structures are used in connected speech. Each analysis is presented with full argumentation and competing analyses are contrasted and discussed. The result is a rich, readable, and beautifully argued portrait of a language and how it works.
Of interest to:
Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguistics (Typology, Himalayan Linguistics).
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