A grammar of Guìqióng : : a language of Sichuan / / by Jiāng Lì.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region ; 15
• Author: Jiang, Li (Language teacher)
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.; c2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (466 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; 1 Introduction /; 2 Guìqióng Phonology /; 3 Morphology /; 4 Syntax /; 5 Pragmatics /; Appendices /; References /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Jiāng Lì.

In A Grammar of Guìqióng , Jiāng Lì describes the grammar of Guìqióng, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in Kāngdìng county, China. Guìqióng has a lot to offer in its phonology, verbal and nominal morphology, syntax and glossary, distinguishing itself from the neighbouring Tibetan, Chinese, Qiangic and Loloish languages. The newly discovered features of Guìqióng include breathy vs. modal voice, indefinite number, ablative, ergative, instrumental, dative and genitive case markers, topic and emphatic markers, the diminutive suffixes, the pronominal and deictic systems, demonstratives and numerals, a rich store of differentiated copular verbs expressing equationality, inchoative, animacy vs. inanimacy, dependent existence and negation, verbal affixes indicating directions, present tense of experienced perceptions, gnomic tense, perfective vs. imperfective aspect, modality and evidentiality.