29.2492, Books: A Grammar of Western Tamang: Regmi, Regmi

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:41:09
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Grammar of Western Tamang: Regmi, Regmi

 


Title: A Grammar of Western Tamang 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 511  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LWM-511-A-Grammar-of-Western-Tamang/en 


Author: Dan Raj Regmi
Author: Ambika Regmi

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862888832 Pages: 160 Price: Europe EURO 66.80


Abstract:

This grammar examines major communicative coding devices (viz., sensory-motor
code and the grammatical code) in Western Tamang and compares them with those
coding devices in Eastern Tamang from typological perspective. Tamang is a
Tibeto-Burman language spoken by about 1,353,311 people, most of them living
in central Nepal particularly the hilly areas around the Kathmandu valley.
Western Tamang employs thirty-five basic consonants and eleven vowels
including four phonetic pitches of the tones to code 'words' at conceptual
lexicon. It utilizes morphology, intonation and word order as primary
grammar-coding devices to primarily code atomic propositional information. It
employs other grammatical sub-systems to mainly code discourse-pragmatics.
Western Tamang, a complex tonal language, displays somewhat consistently
ergative casemarking system. However, human patients are marked by dative case
suffix. Except negation, all case-role and tense-aspect and modality markers
are cliticized as suffixes. Order of clausal constituents may show a
discrepancy mainly for pragmatic effects. It lacks agreement and massively
employs nominalization for many syntactic functions. It registers nominalized
verbs followed by genitive suffix for relative constructions. It exhibits
non-promotional type of passive constructions. It uses conjunction and
subordination to maintain coherence across the clauses.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Tamang, Western (tdg)


Written In: English  (eng)

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