29.3533, Diss: Sino-Tibetan; Language Documentation: Author: Muhammad Zakaria: ''A grammar of Hyow''

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Subject: 29.3533, Diss:  Sino-Tibetan; Language Documentation: Author: Muhammad Zakaria: ''A grammar of Hyow''

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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:14:14
From: Muhammad Zakaria [rehman.zakaria at gmail.com]
Subject: A grammar of Hyow

 
Institution: Nanyang Technological University 
Program: Linguistics and Multilingual Studies 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2018 

Author: Muhammad Zakaria

Dissertation Title: A grammar of Hyow 

Dissertation URL:  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327571943_A_grammar_of_Hyow

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan


Dissertation Director(s):
Alexander Robertson Coupe

Dissertation Abstract:

Hyow is an undocumented language, with about four thousand speakers living in
the southeast of Bangladesh. This dissertation describes the linguistic
features of this undocumented language. This dissertation consists of twelve
chapters, a text, a Hyow-English dictionary, three appendices and references.

This is the first attempt of writing a grammar of the language. Out of many
interesting linguistic features of Hyow, tone sandhi, verb stem variants and
their functions, person hierarchy, middle voice, clausal nominalization and
strategies of forming complex clauses are noteworthy. The findings of tone
sandhi in Hyow will contribute to understand tone patterns of other
undocumented Southern Chin languages. The discussion on stem variants based on
their uses in different types of clauses will add to the study of stem
alternations in Kuki-Chin languages. The effect of stem alternations on
lexical tones might be useful for further study of tonal correspondences among
different Kuki-Chin languages. Among the documented Southern Chin languages
only Hyow and Asho (Otsuka 2015) show person hierarchy for argument
indexations on verbs. This can be useful to determine the lower-level
classifications of Kuki-Chin languages. Middle voice plays an important role
in the grammar of Hyow. However, this topic has not been widely discussed in
other Kuki-Chin languages. The extensive discussion of middle voice in this
dissertation will contribute to future studies of middle voice in other
Kuki-Chin languages. The use of clausal nominalization again demonstrates how
significant it is in Tibeto-Burman languages. To sum up, this dissertation is
expected to further the studies of Kuki-Chin languages in the future.




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