A grammar of Yakkha

A grammar of Yakkha

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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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Main Author: Schackow, Diana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Language Science Press [2015]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: The Yakkha language and its speakers
  • Chapter 3: Phonology
  • Chapter 4: Pronouns, demonstratives, quantifiers, numerals, interrogatives
  • Chapter 5: The noun phrase
  • Chapter 6: Adjectives and adverbs
  • Chapter 7: The geomorphic orientation system
  • Chapter 8: Verbal inflection
  • Chapter 9: Noun-verb predicates
  • Chapter 10: Complex predication
  • Chapter 11: Transitivity
  • Chapter 12: Simple clauses
  • Chapter 13: Nominalization and relativization
  • Chapter 14: Adverbial clause linkage
  • Chapter 15: Complementation
  • Chapter 16: Connectives on the text level
  • Chapter 17: Discourse particles and interjections
  • Appendix A: Texts
  • Appendix B: Yakkha kinship terms
  • Appendix C: Index of Yakkha formatives

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