29.3792, Books: A Grammar of Sanjiang Kam: Manxiang

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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:05:35
From: Ulrich Lüders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Grammar of Sanjiang Kam: Manxiang

 


Title: A Grammar of Sanjiang Kam 
Series Title: Languages of the World 57  

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

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LW-57-A-Grammar-of-Sanjiang-Kam/en 


Author: Manxiang WU

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862888856 Pages: 360 Price: Europe EURO 158.00


Abstract:

Kam is spoken mainly in the adjacent areas of Guizhou province, Hunan
province, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. It is a member of the
Kam-Tai branch of the Tai-Kadai language family. This study is the first
descriptive grammar of Sanjiang Kam, a less studied southern Kam dialect.
Without commitment to any particular theoretical framework, this study aims to
provide an extensive grammatical description of Sanjiang Kam. The data for
this description come from various sources. The author is a native speaker of
Sanjiang Kam, thus a major source of data was obtained from the author’s
family members and other Kam people of the Meilin village. Another important
source comes from the author’s fieldwork notes and records. There are over 100
audio-recordings covering interviews, spontaneous conversations and folk
songs.

Phonologically, Sanjiang Kam possesses a complex and conservative sound
system, known for its system of up to 15 phonetic tones. Grammatically,
Sanjiang Kam is a typical SVO language, showing a strong preference for
head-initial structures in both the noun phrases and verb phrases.
Relativization is predominantly postnominal as in other head-initial
languages, while prenominal relative clauses can be attributed to influence
from a local Chinese dialect Guiliu. Nominalization is achieved through two
sources: first classifiers are used as nominalizers, a very productive process
in Sanjiang Kam; second the use of zero-nominalization where the nominalized
constructions are morphologically unmarked. The significance of this work is
twofold: it offers a comprehensive grammatical description of the less
researched Sanjiang Kam; it is also an important addition to language
description and language documentation literature.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Dong, Southern (kmc)


Written In: English  (eng)

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