A grammar of Purik Tibetan / / by Marius Zemp.

• Author: Zemp, Marius.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (993 pages).

In A Grammar of Purik Tibetan , Marius Zemp offers a comprehensive description of the phonologically archaic Tibetan variety spoken in Kargil, the capital of a region called Purik, situated in the state of Jammu andamp; Kashmir, India. This book contains the most thorough and insightful description of the verbal system of a Tibetic language yet written and will be particularly relevant for scholars studying evidentiality. It also includes highly valuable discussions of a syntactically and pragmatically well-defined class of ideophones which Zemp calls “dramatizers” and of prosody – topics which are too often neglected in language descriptions. Finally, this book goes beyond what others have done in that Purik data are used to elucidate our understanding of Classical Tibetan and its origins.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Phonology -- Noun Phrases -- Sentences -- Modification, Intensification, and Dramatization of Sentences -- Clause Linkage -- Prosody -- Back Matter -- Appendices -- Index.