A grammar of Yakkha
This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on original fieldwork in the Yakkha community...
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| description | This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on original fieldwork in the Yakkha community. Its primary source of data is a corpus of 13,000 clauses from narratives and naturally-occurring social interaction which the author recorded and transcribed between 2009 and 2012. Corpus analyses were complemented by targeted elicitation. The grammar is written in a functional-typological framework. It focusses on morphosyntactic and semantic issues, as these present highly complex and comparatively under-researched fields in Kiranti languages. The sequence of the chapters follows the well-established order of phonological, morphological, syntactic and discourse-structural descriptions. These are supplemented by a historical and sociolinguistic introduction as well as an analysis of the complex kinship terminology. Topics such as verbal person marking, argument structure, transitivity, complex predication, grammatical relations, clause linkage, nominalization, and the topography-based orientation system have received in-depth treatment. Wherever possible, the structures found were explained in a historical-comparative perspective in order to shed more light on how their particular properties have emerged. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-360692024-11-16T05:18:50Z A grammar of Yakkha Schackow, Diana kiranti sino-tibetan languages nepal Central Pashto Inflection Ngasa language Nominalization Transitive verb Verb Yakkha thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on original fieldwork in the Yakkha community. Its primary source of data is a corpus of 13,000 clauses from narratives and naturally-occurring social interaction which the author recorded and transcribed between 2009 and 2012. Corpus analyses were complemented by targeted elicitation. The grammar is written in a functional-typological framework. It focusses on morphosyntactic and semantic issues, as these present highly complex and comparatively under-researched fields in Kiranti languages. The sequence of the chapters follows the well-established order of phonological, morphological, syntactic and discourse-structural descriptions. These are supplemented by a historical and sociolinguistic introduction as well as an analysis of the complex kinship terminology. Topics such as verbal person marking, argument structure, transitivity, complex predication, grammatical relations, clause linkage, nominalization, and the topography-based orientation system have received in-depth treatment. Wherever possible, the structures found were explained in a historical-comparative perspective in order to shed more light on how their particular properties have emerged. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2018-12-12 10:19:03 2020-04-01T14:20:30Z 2015 book 603340 OCN: 945783299 2363-5568 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32844 9783946234128;9783946234135 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36069 eng Studies in Diversity Linguistics open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32844/1/603340.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32844/1/603340.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32844/1/603340.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32844/1/603340.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32844/1/603340.pdf Language Science Press 10.26530/OAPEN_603340 10.26530/OAPEN_603340 ed03121b-b998-4b50-8d58-1d0745565558 Knowledge Unlatched 9783946234128;9783946234135 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 601 open access |
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