A grammar of Atong / / by Seino van Breugel.
Atong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India and Bangladesh. Seino van Breugel provides a deep and thorough coverage and analysis of all major areas of the grammar, which makes this book of great interest and value to general linguists and typologists as well as area specialists. Alon...
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| Superior document: | Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, volume 5 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ;
v. 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (700 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Atong language and its speakers
- Phonology
- Word classes: an overview
- Verbs and verb/nouns
- Adjectives
- Nouns, the noun phrase and the nominal clump
- Kinship terms
- Deictic words
- Interrogatives
- Indefinite preforms
- The quantifier phrase, numerals and other quantifiers
- Classifiers
- Postpositions
- Discourse connectives
- Other word classes
- Sub-class-changing derivation
- Phrasal enclitics
- Semantic-role marking
- Pragmatic-role and specificity enclitics
- The predicate
- Derivational suffixes
- Predicate enclitics
- The clause, clause types and illocutionary force
- The factitive enclitic =wa , subordination and nominalization
- Goal-marked predicates
- Temporal-location and conditional clauses
- Concomitant-action clauses
- Adverbial and sequential clauses.