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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      November 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511486883
      9780521120517
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486883
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      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.8kg, 504 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Other Languages and Linguistics, Asian Studies, European and World Literature: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Other Languages and Linguistics, Asian Studies, European and World Literature: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions
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    First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjectivals. Its verb morphology has implications for the understanding of the history of the entire Tibeto-Burman family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, deals with all major aspects of the language including segmental phonology, tone, word classes, noun phrases, nominalizations, transitivity alterations, tense-aspect-modality, non-declarative speech acts, and complex sentence structure. It provides copious examples throughout the exposition and includes three short native texts and a vocabulary of more than 400 words, many of them reconstructed for Proto-Kham and Proto-Tibeto-Burman.

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