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<pre>Lingtyp readers may be interested in a new book in LangSci's series
"Studies in Diversity Linguistics":
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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:
<a href="http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mauw1238">http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yakk1236</a>). It is written
accessibly and with a typological readership in mind.
Free download at:
<a href="http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/67">http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/66</a> (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
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This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical
description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti
branch. <br>
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<div style="display: block;" id="more" class="more"> 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.
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Martin Haspelmath (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a>)
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Kahlaische Strasse 10
D-07745 Jena
&
Leipzig University
Beethovenstrasse 15
D-04107 Leipzig
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://research.uni-leipzig.de/unicodas/martin-haspelmath/">https://research.uni-leipzig.de/unicodas/martin-haspelmath/</a>
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