[Lingtyp] new open-access grammar: Yakkha

[Martin Haspelmath]

Thanks, Nigel,  for pointing out the error. Here's the correct version:


Lingtyp readers may be interested in a new book in LangSci's series
"Studies in Diversity Linguistics":

Schackow, Diana. 2015. A grammar of Yakkha (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 7).
Berlin: Language Science Press.

This is one of the most detailed grammars of a Kiranti language (Glottolog:
http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yakk1236). It is written
accessibly and with a typological readership in mind.

Free download at:
http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/66  (Printed copy also available,
via print on demand.)

Please consider submitting a book manuscript (monograph or edited
volume, descriptive or typological) to "Studies in Diversity Linguistics".

Best wishes,
Martin



On 26.11.15 11:46, Nigel Vincent wrote:
> Thanks, Martin, though for some reason the link in your message goes 
> to the wrong grammar (Mauwake rather than Yakka).
> Nigel
>
>
> Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
> Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
> The University of Manchester
>
> Linguistics & English Language
> School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
> The University of Manchester
> Manchester M13 9PL
> UK
>
>
> http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=nigel.vincent
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> *From:* Lingtyp [lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] on behalf 
> of Martin Haspelmath [haspelmath at shh.mpg.de]
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:41 AM
> *To:* LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> *Subject:* [Lingtyp] new open-access grammar: Yakkha (Tibeto-Burman), 
> published by Language Science Press
>
> Lingtyp readers may be interested in a new book in LangSci's series
> "Studies in Diversity Linguistics":
>
> Schackow, Diana. 2015. A grammar of Yakkha (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 7).
> Berlin: Language Science Press.
>
> This is one of the most detailed grammars of a Kiranti language (Glottolog:
> http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yakk1236  <http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mauw1238>). It is written
> accessibly and with a typological readership in mind.
>
> Free download at:
> http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/66  <http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/67>  (Printed copy also available,
> via print on demand.)
>
> Please consider submitting a book manuscript (monograph or edited
> volume, descriptive or typological) to "Studies in Diversity Linguistics".
>
> Best wishes,
> Martin
>
> ************************************
>
> 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. Its primary source of data 
> is a corpus of 13,000 clauses from narratives and naturally-occurring 
> social interaction which the author recorded and transcribed between 
> 2009 and 2012. Corpus analyses were complemented by targeted 
> elicitation. The grammar is written in a functional-typological 
> framework. It focusses on morphosyntactic and semantic issues, as 
> these present highly complex and comparatively under-researched fields 
> in Kiranti languages. The sequence of the chapters follows the 
> well-established order of phonological, morphological, syntactic and 
> discourse-structural descriptions. These are supplemented by a 
> historical and sociolinguistic introduction as well as an analysis of 
> the complex kinship terminology. Topics such as verbal person marking, 
> argument structure, transitivity, complex predication, grammatical 
> relations, clause linkage, nominalization, and the topography-based 
> orientation system have received in-depth treatment. Wherever 
> possible, the structures found were explained in a 
> historical-comparative perspective in order to shed more light on how 
> their particular properties have emerged.
> -- 
> Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at shh.mpg.de)
> Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
> Kahlaische Strasse 10	
> D-07745 Jena
> &
> Leipzig University
> Beethovenstrasse 15
> D-04107 Leipzig
> https://research.uni-leipzig.de/unicodas/martin-haspelmath/
>
>
>
>
>

-- 
Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at shh.mpg.de)
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Kahlaische Strasse 10	
D-07745 Jena
&
Leipzig University
Beethovenstrasse 15
D-04107 Leipzig





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