A Grammar of Dumi
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A Grammar of Dumi

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A Grammar of Dumi

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110123517
eBook ISBN
9783110880915
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Transliteration and transcription
  4. 1. The Dumi
  5. 1.1. The Dumi and their neighbours
  6. 1.2. The linguistic situation
  7. 1.3. The material and the speakers
  8. 1.4. The Dumi kinship system
  9. 1.5. Dumi shamanism and the animist pantheon
  10. 2. Phonology and Phonetics
  11. 2.1. Vowel phonemes and their allophones
  12. 2.2. Consonant phonemes and their allophones
  13. 2.3. Hiatus and the syllable
  14. 2.4. The orthography
  15. 3. Nominal Morphology
  16. 3.1. Number
  17. 3.2. Case
  18. 3.3. Compounding
  19. 3.4. Pronouns
  20. 3.5. Numerals
  21. 3.6. Adjectives
  22. 4. Conjugations of the Verb
  23. 4.1. Conjugations and morphophonology
  24. 4.2. Intransitive conjugations
  25. 4.3. Transitive conjugations
  26. 4.4. Apophony and homophony
  27. 5. Morphology of Simplicia
  28. 5.1. Prefixes
  29. 5.2. Suffixes
  30. 5.3. Overview of affixal slots and their fillers
  31. 5.4. Verbs ‘to be’
  32. 6. Aspect and Aspectivizers
  33. 6.1. Aspect
  34. 6.2. The nominalizer suffix
  35. 6.3. Aspectivizers and Aktionsarten
  36. 7. Causatives and Transitivity
  37. 7.1. Improductive causatives: reflexes of Tibeto-Burman *-t directive suffix
  38. 7.2. The productive causativizer mitni
  39. 7.3. Transitivity and impersonal constructions
  40. 8. Perfect Tenses
  41. 8.1. Perfect and pluperfect
  42. 8.2. Negated perfect and pluperfect
  43. 8.3. The negative perfect gerund
  44. 9. Other Verbal Constructions
  45. 9.1. The perfect gerund
  46. 9.2. The present gerund
  47. 9.3. Imperative
  48. 9.4. The adhortative
  49. 9.5. The optative
  50. 9.6. Clause-final mood particles, conjunctions and reported speech
  51. 9.7. The infinitive
  52. 9.8. The supine
  53. 9.9. The active participle
  54. 9.10. The impersonal first plural inclusive
  55. Appendices
  56. I. Texts
  57. The Dumi creation myth
  58. The original family of Man pitted against the Hāyu or cannibals
  59. The myth of Ηοiplɨ, the first son of Khopsɨ-Lɨkpa and Naighɨlem
  60. Conversation 1
  61. Conversation 2
  62. Conversation 3
  63. Formulaic farewell
  64. II. Paradigms
  65. 1. Intransitive verbs
  66. 2. Transitive verbs
  67. 3. Reflexive verbs
  68. III. Dumi-English Glossary
  69. IV. Plates
  70. References

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