Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa) / / by Timotheus Adrianus Bodt.

• Superior document: Languages of the greater Himalayan region ; 23
• VerfasserIn: Bodt, Timotheus A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Languages of the greater Himalayan region ; 23.; Brill's Tibetan studies library ; 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

With Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa), Timotheus Adrianus (Tim) Bodt provides the first comprehensive description of any of the Western Kho-Bwa languages, a sub-group of eight linguistic varieties of the Kho-Bwa cluster (Tibeto-Burman). Duhumbi is spoken by 600 people in the Chug valley in West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Duhumbi people, known to the outside world as Chugpa or Chug Monpa, belong to the Monpa Scheduled Tribe. Despite that affiliation, Duhumbi is not intelligible to speakers of any of the other Monpa languages except Khispi (Lishpa). The volume Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa) describes all aspects of the language, including phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax and discourse. Moreover, it also contains links to additional resources freely accessible on-line.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements List of tables List of Glosses, conventions and symbols -- 1 The Duhumbi and their language 1.1 Geographical setting 1.2 Geopolitical setting 1.3 Autonyms, exonyms and population 1.4 Origin and settlement 1.5 Livelihood, culture and religion 1.6 Duhumbi ngak 1.7 The data and corpus -- 2 Phonology and orthography 2.1 Transcription systems and orthographies 2.2 Non-native and marginal phonemes and allophones 2.3 The vowel system 2.4 The consonant system 2.5 Syllable structure and phonotactics 2.6 Prosodic features of Duhumbi 2.7 Two-way contrast on plosives and affricates -- 3 Parts of speech 3.1 Nominal versus verbal parts of speech 3.2 Pronouns 3.3 Nouns 3.4 Proper nouns 3.5 Adjectives 3.6 Demonstratives 3.7 Numerals 3.8 Postpositions 3.9 Adverbs 3.10 Expressives 3.11 Interrogatives 3.12 Verbal parts of speech 3.13 Other parts of speech -- 4 Lexical aspects 4.1 Nouns 4.2 Proper nouns 4.3 Adjectives 4.4 Adverbs 4.5 Expressives 4.6 Numerals 4.7 Lexical registers 4.8 Complex predicates 4.9 Particular verbs 4.10 Interjections 4.11 The borrowed lexicon -- 5 Nominalisations 5.1 Pure derivational nominalisers 5.2 Nominaliser / -ba nom 5.3 Nominaliser / -baʔ inf -- 6 The noun phrase 6.1 Constituent order in noun phrases 6.2 Grammatical relations and case markers 6.3 Other nominal suffixes 6.4 Intensity 6.5 Use of adjectives 6.6 Use of demonstratives 6.7 Use of the numeral / hin ‘one’ 6.8 Use of the postposition / naŋ- ‘in’ 6.9 Use of interrogatives -- 7 Verbal morphology 7.1 Imperfective / -da ipfv 7.2 Past tenses 7.3 Non-past tenses 7.4 Summary of verbal morphology -- 8 Non-verbal predicates 8.1 Verb and copula-less clauses 8.2 Copula / beʔ cop.ex 8.3 Copula / le cop.le 8.4 Copula / giʨʰa cop.eq 8.5 Copula / ɕi cop.as 8.6 Copula in possessive relations 8.7 Copular verb / ʥu- ‘be’ 8.8 Negative copular verbs and copula / balaŋ 8.9 Limited conjugational flexibility of copular verbs -- 9 Serial verb constructions 9.1 Types of SVC 9.2 SVCs in various contexts 9.3 SVCs and prosody 9.4 Modifying verbs 9.5 Symmetrical SVCs 9.6 Asymmetrical SVCs 9.7 SVCs in a historical-comparative perspective -- 10 Non-declarative clause types 10.1 Interrogatives 10.2 Question markers 10.3 Formation of questions 10.4 Question sub-types 10.5 Moods -- 11 Complex sentences 11.1 Imperfective phrases and clauses 11.2 Subordination with / -ba nom and / -baʔ inf 11.3 Subordination with / -tʰaŋ lcn 11.4 Other cotemporal subordinators 11.5 Conditional with / -se cond 11.6 Copular causal subordination 11.7 Conjunctions 11.8 Modifying suffixes and clitics -- 12 Discourse structure 12.1 Discourse structuring 12.2 Discourse particles 12.3 Topic, focus and emphasis -- 13 Texts 13.1 Duhumbi text genres 13.2 Metadata of texts 13.3 Metadata of speakers 13.4 Descriptions of all texts 13.5 Zenodo DOIs of texts 13.6 Elicitation files 13.7 Text: NNK; CHUK260413A2A 13.8 Text LGT; CHUK300412J2 13.9 Text: LEL; CHUKx13A6 13.10 Text: DTPK; CHUK131014 -- References Index Figures.