A Grammar of Limbu
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A Grammar of Limbu

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A Grammar of Limbu

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110112825
eBook ISBN
9783110846812
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Abbreviations
  2. Transliteration and transcription
  3. Maps
  4. 0. INTRODUCTION
  5. 0.1. The Limbus
  6. 0.2. The language
  7. 0.3. This grammar
  8. 1. PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS
  9. 1.1. Limbu phonemes and the native phoneme system
  10. 1.2. Allophones and phonetic description of Limbu phonemes
  11. 1.3. The Limbu word
  12. 1.4. Assimilation and dissimilation
  13. 1.5. The orthography
  14. 2. NOMINAL MORPHOLOGY
  15. 2.1. Adjectives
  16. 2.2. Pronouns
  17. 2.3. Dualization and pluralization
  18. 2.4. Cases or postfixes
  19. 2.5. Compounding
  20. 3. THE VERBS ‘TO BE’
  21. 3.1. The identity operator
  22. 3.2. Existential ‘to be’ and ‘not to be’
  23. 3.3. Locational ‘to be’
  24. 3.4. Adhesive ‘to be’
  25. 3.5. Attributive ‘to be’
  26. 3.6. Inchoative ‘to be’
  27. 4. MORPHEMIC ANALYSIS OF THE SIMPLICIA
  28. 4.1. Verb stems
  29. 4.2. Conjugations and irregularity
  30. 4.3. Morphophonology
  31. 4.4. Person marker morphemes
  32. 4.5. Negation (non-nexal)
  33. 5. ASPECT AND ASPECTIVIZERS
  34. 5.1. Aspect
  35. 5.2. The imperious future
  36. 5.3. Aspectivizers
  37. 6. MODE
  38. 6.1. Optative
  39. 6.2. Conditional
  40. 6.3. Irrealis and the neverthelessive
  41. 6.4. Interrogative
  42. 7. GERUNDS AND PERIPHRASTIC TENSES
  43. 7.1. The gerunds
  44. 7.2. The focused continuous
  45. 7.3. The spatially defocused continuous
  46. 7.4. The temporally defocused continuous
  47. 7.5. The periphrastic perfect tenses
  48. 8. OTHER VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS
  49. 8.1. Adhortative
  50. 8.2. Imperative
  51. 8.3. The nominalizer suffix -pa
  52. 8.4. The active participle and its negative
  53. 8.5. The passive participle
  54. 8.6. The infinitive
  55. 8.7. The supine
  56. 8.8. The passivizer -tεtmaʔ
  57. 8.9. The impersonal inclusive
  58. 8.10. The polite inclusive
  59. 9. SUBORDINATION
  60. 9.1. Indirect speech and direct quotes
  61. 9.2. The subordination phaʔaŋ
  62. 9.3. The subordinator -phεlle
  63. 9.4. -ille subordination
  64. 9.5. Concessive clauses with gɔrɔ
  65. 9.6. Subordination with -tεn
  66. 9.7. Subordination with -kusiŋ, e•kke
  67. 9.8. Reported speech
  68. 9.9. Exigency po•ŋmaʔ
  69. 9.10. Clause-final adverbs and mood particles
  70. 10. CAUSATIVES AND ERGATIVITY
  71. 10.1. Improductive causatives
  72. 10.2. Productive, periphrastic causatives
  73. 10.3. Transitivity and actant coding
  74. APPENDICES
  75. I. TEXTS
  76. 1. Culinary
  77. 2. Everyday Life
  78. 3. Myth and Legend
  79. 4. Fable
  80. 5. Anecdote
  81. 6. Riddles
  82. II. PARADIGMS
  83. 1. Regular verbs
  84. 2. Irregular verbs
  85. 2.1. Regular apophony: intransitives
  86. 2.2. Irregular apophony: intransitives
  87. 2.3. Regular apophony: transitives
  88. III. LIMBU-ENGLISH GLOSSARY
  89. IV. ANTHOLOGY OF KIRANTI SCRIPTS
  90. References
  91. List of Plates

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