A Grammar of Xong / / Adam Sposato.

Despite the fact that Miao-Yao (or Hmong-Mien) is one of the major language families of East and Southeast Asia, this work is only the second full-length descriptive grammar of any Miao-Yao language published in English. It focuses on Xong, a language belonging to the Miao branch of the family. Xong...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 84
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XX, 662 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of glossing abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Background
  • 3 Phonology
  • 4 Orthographies
  • 5 Nouns
  • 6 Classifiers and numerals
  • 7 Deictic forms
  • 8 Complex nominal constructions
  • 9 Clauses
  • 10 Verbs
  • 11 Expressive forms
  • 12 Multiverbal constructions
  • Text 1 Oub Meinl Yaos Geud
  • Text 2 Tooth conversation
  • References
  • Index