A grammar of Darma / / Christina Willis Oko.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; volume22
• VerfasserIn: Willis Oko, Christina,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; volume22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (592 pages)

A Grammar of Darma provides the first comprehensive description of this Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Uttarakhand, India. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework and draws on a corpus of data gathered through elicitation, observation and recordings of natural discourse. Every effort has been made to describe day-to-day language, so whenever possible, illustrative examples are taken from extemporaneous speech and contextualized. Sections of the grammar should appeal widely to scholars interested in South Asia’s languages and cultures, including discussions of the socio-cultural setting, the sound system, morphosyntactic, clause and discourse structure. The grammar’s interlinearized texts and glossary provide a trove of useful information for comparative linguists working on Tibeto-Burman languages and anyone interested in the world’s less-commonly spoken languages.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Tables -- Figures -- Maps -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Sound System and Orthography -- An Acoustic Analysis of Sounds in Darma -- Morpho-Phonology -- Noun Phrases, Nouns, and Nominal Morphology -- Pronouns and Demonstratives -- Possession -- Quantifiers -- Adjectives, Adjectivals, and Their Modifiers -- The Structure of the Noun Phrase -- Verbs and Associated Morphology -- Constituent Order and Roles Markers (Reprise) -- Adverbs -- Discourse Markers -- Clause and Sentence Structure -- Combined Clauses -- Discourse and Texts -- Back Matter -- Place Names, Language Names, and Other Information -- Recordings -- Formant Measurements -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.