LINGUIST List 22.1997 Mon May 09 2011 Diss: Lang Doc/Syntax: Lidz: 'A Descriptive Grammar of Yongning Na ...' Editor for this issue: Mfon Udoinyang <mfonlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Liberty Lidz , A Descriptive Grammar of Yongning Na (Mosuo) Message 1: A Descriptive Grammar of Yongning Na (Mosuo) Date: 08-May-2011 From: Liberty Lidz <libertylidzberkeley.edu> Subject: A Descriptive Grammar of Yongning Na (Mosuo) E-mail this message to a friend Institution: University of Texas at Austin Program: Department of Linguistics Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2010 Author: Liberty A. Lidz Dissertation Title: A Descriptive Grammar of Yongning Na (Mosuo) Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation                             Syntax Dissertation Director: Tony Woodbury Dissertation Abstract: This dissertation is a descriptive grammar of Yongning Na (Mosuo), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in southwestern China. The theoretical approaches taken are functional syntax and the discourse-based approach to language description and documentation. The aim of this dissertation is to describe the ways that the language's features and subsystems intersect to make Na a unique entity: analycity; zero anaphora; OV word order; topic/comment information structure; a five-part evidential system; a conjunct/disjunct-like system that intersects with evidentiality and verbal semantics; prolific grammaticalization; overlap between nominalization and relativization and associated structures; representation of time through aspect, Aktionsart, adverbials, and context; and the Daba shamanic register. Topics covered in the grammar include a description of the sociolinguistic environment; the phonemic inventory; phonological processes; compounding; word classes; the structure of noun phrases; the classifier system; types of possession; methods for quantification; grammatical relations and non-systemic 'ergative' and 'anti-ergative' marking; the structure of verb phrases; the multiple existential verbs; the aspectual system; evidentiality; grammaticalization; clause-combining; narrative texts; and lexicon. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-May-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.