28.2993, Books: A Reference Grammar of Dhimal: Khatiwada

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:15:27
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: A Reference Grammar of Dhimal: Khatiwada

 


Title: A Reference Grammar of Dhimal 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 508  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/A-Reference-Grammar-of-Dhimal/en 


Author: Karnakhar Khatiwada

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862888245 Pages: 314 Price: Europe EURO 82.80


Abstract:

This study analyzes the grammar of Dhimal, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in
the far eastern Tarai region of Nepal in the framework of the
functional-typological grammar developed by Givón (2001a, b). According to the
census (2011), the total number of the Dhimal is 26, 298 which comprise 0.09%
of the total population of Nepal. The main objective of this study is to
prepare a reference grammar of Dhimal. Most of the examples presented in this
study are drawn from naturally occurring texts.

In this study, Dhimal lexicon is categorized in terms of the major and minor
word classes. Simple clauses are broadly classified as non-verbal and verbal
predicates. Dhimal employs the nominative-accusative case marking scheme.
Dhimal is an SOV ordered language. However, the constituents of the clause may
be permuted within the clause for pragmatic purposes. Dhimal exhibits
morphologically marked past, present and future tenses. Personal pronouns show
three persons and three numbers distinction. Honorificity exhibits neutral vs.
affinal contrast. The grammar of pronouns and grammatical agreement are
morphological devices to encode the referential coherence. Verbs with clausal
complements include modal-aspectual, manipulation and
perception-cognition-utterance verbs.

Causativization is primarily morphological. The widely used way to put the
verb of the relative clause is in nominalized form. Discourse particles,
intonation and constituent order may be utilized in contrastive focus and
marked topic constructions. The non-declarative speech acts include
interrogative, imperative, optative, hortative and imperious types. The
adverbial subordinate clauses are either marked through the subordinating
morphemes attached to the dependent clause or through the special non-finite
verb forms. Dhimal exhibits a number of typologically interesting features.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Dhimal (dhi)


Written In: English  (eng)

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