A grammar of Jero : : with a historical comparative study of the Kiranti languages / / Jean Robert Opgenort.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library ; 5/3
• VerfasserIn: Opgenort, Jean Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English; Sino-Tibetan
• Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library ; 5/3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the endangered (Tibeto-Burman) Jero language as spoken in eastern Nepal, appears in sequel to the author's 2004 Grammar of Wambule , the language most closely related to Jero. It pictures the complex-pronominalising language of the Jero Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal. With a historical comparative study of the Kiranti languages, the branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family to which both Jero and Wambule belong. An exhaustive and model reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology and linguistic theory. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- LIST OF DIAGRAMS AND MAPS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- EDITORIAL FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE - THE JERO LANGUAGE AND ITS RELATIVES -- 1.1 The Kiranti languages -- 1.2 The Jero language and its dialects -- 1.3 The Jero language and its linguistic relatives -- 1.3.1 Lexical and phonological comparison between 13 languages -- 1.3.1.1 Lexical isoglosses -- 1.3.1.2 Phonological developments -- 1.3.1.3 Relative closeness between pairs of Kiranti languages -- 1.3.2 Morphological comparison between W. Kiranti languages -- 1.3.3 The distance between Jero and Wambule -- CHAPTER TWO - PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONOLOGY -- 2.1 Vowels -- 2.1.1 Distinctive length contrasts between vowels -- 2.1.2 Neutralisations -- 2.1.3 Nasalised vowels -- 2.2 Consonants -- 2.2.1 Obstruents -- 2.2.2 Nasals -- 2.2.3 The fricative, trill and laterals -- 2.2.4 Approximants -- 2.2.5 Consonant clusters -- 2.3 Morphophonology -- 2.3.1 Morphophonemic and phonemic vowel length -- 2.3.2 Bound morphemes -- 2.3.3 Full and abbreviated morphs -- 2.3.4 Final and post-final &lt -- t&gt -- -- 2.3.5 Post-agreement suffixes with initial &lt -- m&gt -- -- 2.4 Phonology of Nepali loans -- 2.5 The orthography and rule of transcription -- CHAPTER THREE - NOMINALS AND ADVERBIALS -- 3.1 Improductive nominal suffixes -- 3.1.1 The suffix 'person' -- 3.1.2 The suffix 'grain' -- 3.1.3 The suffix 'water' -- 3.1.4 The suffix 'tree, wood' -- 3.1.5 The suffix 'fruit' -- 3.1.6 The suffix 'small object' -- 3.1.7 The suffixes 'day' -- 3.1.8 The suffix 'bird' -- 3.1.9 The suffix 'flesh, meat' -- 3.1.10 The masculine suffixes -- 3.1.11 The feminine suffixes -- 3.2 Number markers -- 3.3 Case markers -- 3.3.1 The source marker -- 3.3.2 The locative marker -- 3.3.3 The comitative marker -- 3.3.4 The ablative marker -- 3.3.5 The genitive marker.

3.3.6 The similaritive marker -- 3.4 Postpositions -- 3.4.1 The directive postposition -- 3.4.2 The postpositions 'in front of, before' -- 3.4.3 The postposition 'behind, after' -- 3.4.4 Postpositions of location -- 3.4.5 The postposition 'beside' -- 3.4.6 The postpositions 'in the company of' and 'together' -- 3.4.7 The postposition 'without' -- 3.4.8 The postposition 'on top of' -- 3.4.9 The postposition 'aside from' -- 3.4.10 The postposition 'than' -- 3.4.11 The postposition 'next to' -- 3.4.12 The patient postposition -- 3.4.13 The postposition 'as far as' -- 3.5 Discourse markers -- 3.5.1 The marker 'also, too, even' -- 3.5.2 The marker 'exactly, precisely' -- 3.5.3 The marker 'on the contrary' -- 3.5.4 The marker 'only' -- 3.5.5 The theme marker -- 3.5.6 The contrastive topic marker -- 3.6 Personal pronouns -- 3.7 Possessive pronouns -- 3.8 Demonstratives -- 3.8.1 Demonstrative pronouns -- 3.8.2 Demonstrative adverbs of place and direction -- 3.8.3 Demonstratives of manner -- 3.8.4 Adverbs of altitude -- 3.9 Indefinite and interrogative words -- 3.10 Adjectives -- 3.11 Numerals and numeral classifiers -- 3.12 Quantifiers and intensifiers -- 3.13 Nouns and adverbs of time -- 3.14 Norninalisation and reification -- 3.15 Emphatic forms -- CHAPTER FOUR - FINITE VERB FORMS -- 4.1 The Jero verb -- 4.1.1 Transitivity -- 4.1.2 Conjugations and verb classes -- 4.1.3 The verb root syllable -- 4.2 The negative -- 4.3 The simplex verb -- 4.3.1 The second and third person singular suffix -- 4.3.2 The 3s→1s suffix -- 4.3.3 The dual suffix -- 4.3.4 The first person dual exclusive agent and subject suffix -- 4.3.5 The third person non-plural agent suffix -- 4.3.6 The 2→1s suffix -- 4.3.7 The first person inclusive agent and subject suffix -- 4.3.8 The first person exclusive agent and subject suffix.

4.3.9 The second and third person and non-singular actant suffix -- 4.3.10 The 3s→2s morpheme -- 4.3.11 The second person suffix -- 4.3.12 The 1s→2 suffix -- 4.3.13 The dual subject suffix -- 4.3.14 The first person singular suffix -- 4.3.15 The middle suffix -- 4.3.16 The third person dual agent suffix -- 4.4 The factual verbal adjective -- 4.5 The affirmative -- 4.6 The imperative -- 4.6.1 The singular agent and subject suffix -- 4.6.2 The second and third person dual suffix -- 4.6.3 The imperative suffix -- 4.6.4 The s→3ns suffix -- 4.6.5 The plural subject suffix -- 4.6.6 The second and third person plural suffix -- 4.6.7 The first person singular patient suffix -- 4.6.8 The dual subject suffix -- 4.6.9 The detransitivising suffix -- 4.7 Prohibition and absence of necessity -- 4.8 The optative -- CHAPTER FIVE - NON - FINITE DEVERBATIVES -- 5.1 Verbal nouns -- 5.1.1 The infinitive -- 5.1.2 The supine -- 5.1.3 The nominaliser of loan verbs -- 5.2 Verbal adjectives -- 5.2.1 The particular active verbal adjective -- 5.2.2 The general active verbal adjective -- 5.2.3 The attributive verbal adjective -- 5.2.4 The verbal adjective of purpose -- 5.2.5 The passive verbal adjective -- CHAPTER SIX - GERUNDS -- 6.1 Perfect gerunds -- 6.2 Present gerunds -- 6.3 The conditional gerund and the irrealis -- 6.4 The simultaneous gerund -- 6.5 The connective gerund -- 6.6 Gerunds of manner -- 6.7 The negative state gerund -- CHAPTER SEVEN - VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND COMPLEX VERBS -- 7.1 Inceptive auxiliaries -- 7.2 Ingressive auxiliaries -- 7.3 The continuous auxiliary -- 7.4 Terminative auxiliaries -- 7.5 Auxiliaries of capacity -- 7.6 Auxiliaries 'to like' -- 7.7 The auxiliaries 'to know' -- 7.8 The auxiliary 'to give' -- 7.9 The provocative auxiliary -- 7.10 The reciprocal auxiliary -- 7.11 The causative auxiliary -- 7.12 Bound verb roots.

APPENDIX ONE - JERO-ENGLISH LEXICON -- APPENDIX TWO - ENGLISH-JERO LEXICON -- APPENDIX THREE - AFFIRMATIVE AND IMPERATIVE PARADIGMS -- 3.1 Class (vi-1a-1) -- 3.2 Class (vi-1a-ii) -- 3.3 Class (vi-1c) -- 3.4 Class (vi-2) -- 3.5 Class (vm-1a) -- 3.6 Classes (vm-1b) and (vm-1c) -- 3.7 Class (vt-2a) -- 3.8 Class (vt-2b) -- 3.9 Class (vt-2c) -- 3.10 Class (vt-2d) -- 3.11 Class (vt-2e) -- 3.12 Class (vt-2g) -- APPENDIX FOUR - COMPARATIVE KIRANTI WORD LIST -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- BRILL'S TIBETAN STUDIES LIBRARY.