A grammar of Tshangla / by Erik E. Andvik.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the greater Himalayan region, v. 5/10
• Author: Andvik, Erik E.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the greater Himalayan region.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (506 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

A Grammar of Tshangla is the first major linguistic description of Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Bhutan, northeast India, and southwest China. Written from a functional-typological perspective, it contains a wealth of illustrative examples both from elicited data and from spontaneously generated texts. It is a truly comprehensive description, including sections on phonology, lexicon, morphophonemics, morphosyntactic structure, clause-concatenating constructions, as well as discourse-pragmatic features. The volume will be of interest to language students, and to linguists and ethnographic scholars seeking to understand the Bhutanese and South Asian linguistic situation. The large amount of raw language data presented here make this Grammar of Tshangla an indispensable tool for students of Tibeto-Burman comparative linguistics and morphosyntactic theory in general.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / E. Andvik -- Chapter One. Introduction / E. Andvik -- Chapter Two. Phonology / E. Andvik -- Chapter Three. Lexicon And Word Classes / E. Andvik -- Chapter Four. Morphophonemics / E. Andvik -- Chapter Five. Noun Phrase / E. Andvik -- Chapter Six. The Clause, Syntactic Roles And Transitivity / E. Andvik -- Chapter Seven. Case Marking / E. Andvik -- Chapter Eight. Sentence, Clause And Predicate / E. Andvik -- Chapter Nine. Sentence Types And Sentence Moods / E. Andvik -- Chapter Ten. Finite Clauses: Tense, Aspect And Mirativity / E. Andvik -- Chapter Eleven. Relative Clauses / E. Andvik -- Chapter Twelve. Other Embedded Clauses / E. Andvik -- Chapter Thirteen. Adverbial Clauses / E. Andvik -- Chapter Fourteen. Complementation / E. Andvik -- Chapter Fifteen. Concatenation: The Non-Final Construction / E. Andvik -- Chapter Sixteen. Daknyi And Anyi / E. Andvik -- Chapter Seventeen. Versatile Particles / E. Andvik -- Chapter Eighteen. Sentence-Level Pragmatic Devices / E. Andvik -- Chapter Nineteen. Summary And Conclusion / E. Andvik -- Bibliography / E. Andvik -- Index / E. Andvik.