A Grammar of Bunan / / Manuel Widmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Widmer, Manuel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 71
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXVI, 777 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Table of contents --; List of tables --; List of figures --; List of abbreviations --; 1 Preliminaries --; 2 Phonetics and phonology --; 3 Morphophonology --; 4 Nouns and nominal morphology --; 5 Pronouns and demonstratives --; 6 Adjectives --; 7 Quantifiers --; 8 The structure of the noun phrase --; 9 Discourse clitics and discourse particles --; 10 Interjections, terms of address, and conventionalized communicative expressions --; 11 Adverbs --; 12 Verbs --; 13 Epistemic marking and syntactic agreement --; 14 The copulas --; 15 Finite inflection --; 16 The clause --; 17 Grammatical relations --; 18 Nondeclarative speech acts --; 19 Combined clauses --; 20 Appendix A: Texts --; 21 Appendix B: Bunan word list --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110766295; 9783110762495
• ISSN: 0933-7636
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110766295
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Manuel Widmer.

This book provides a comprehensive grammatical description of Bunan, a Tibeto-Burman languages that is spoken by approximately 4,000 people in the North Indian Himalayas. The grammar offers a systematic analysis of a wide range of grammatical phenomena, ranging from phonetics and phonology to complex syntactic constructions. Moreover, it contains a wealth of historical annotations, annotated texts, and a Bunan-English glossary.