| Description |
1 online resource (700 pages) : illustrations. |
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computer rdamedia |
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| Series |
Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, 1877-4083 ; volume 5 |
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Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; v. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Atong language and its speakers -- Phonology -- Word classes: an overview -- Verbs and verb/nouns -- Adjectives -- Nouns, the noun phrase and the nominal clump -- Kinship terms -- Deictic words -- Interrogatives -- Indefinite preforms -- The quantifier phrase, numerals and other quantifiers -- Classifiers -- Postpositions -- Discourse connectives -- Other word classes -- Sub-class-changing derivation -- Phrasal enclitics -- Semantic-role marking -- Pragmatic-role and specificity enclitics -- The predicate -- Derivational suffixes -- Predicate enclitics -- The clause, clause types and illocutionary force -- The factitive enclitic =wa , subordination and nominalization -- Goal-marked predicates -- Temporal-location and conditional clauses -- Concomitant-action clauses -- Adverbial and sequential clauses. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Tibeto-Burman languages -- Grammar.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Breugel, Seino van. Grammar of Atong. Leiden : Brill, 2014 xxxvii, 659 pages Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; volume 5 9789004258921 (DLC)10837914 |
| ISBN |
9789004258921 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9789004258938 (e-book) |
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