A Grammar of Karbi
About this book
This is a comprehensive grammar of the Hills Karbi variety spoken predominantly in the Karbi Anglong districts. Karbi belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) family but its exact phylogenetic status has remained unclear. By providing a diachronically-oriented functional analysis of all structural levels of Karbi, this grammar offers a reference work that provides a thorough account of this language. The data in this grammar come from fieldwork that was primarily carried out in the district capital of Diphu although the corpus includes recordings of speakers from all over the two Karbi Anglong districts. This corpus is freely available both as fully glossed text in Himalayan Linguistics (Konnerth and Tisso 2018) and as original media files in ELAR (SOAS University of London). Now also including a glossary, this grammar is a thoroughly revised version of the 2014 dissertation of the author, which won the 2015 P??ini Award of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT). In this revised version, a few new sections have been added and numerous other sections have been thoroughly updated.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodology and data
- 3 Phonology
- 4 The major word classes: Nouns and verbs and ‘adjectival verbs’
- 5 Subclasses of nouns
- 6 Other word classes
- 7 Nominal morphology
- 8 Verbal morphology: Overview and pre-root slots
- 9 Verbal morphology: Post-root slots
- 10 The noun phrase
- 11 Monoclausal predicate constructions
- 12 Nominalization
- 13 Clause participants: Overview, participants, noun phrase delimiter
- 14 Role marking and core information/discourse structure marking
- 15 Clause types and clause combining
- 16 Discourse constructions
- Appendix A. Abbreviations
- Appendix B. Folk story: Chonghokaloso lapen Misorongpo (RBT, ChM)
- Appendix C. Stimuli-based narrative: Pear Story (SiT, PS)
- Appendix D. Metadata
- Appendix E. Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index Karbi grammar
- Author Index
