33.3501, Books: A Grammar of Koyee: Mani Rai

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:25:53
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Grammar of Koyee: Mani Rai

 


Title: A Grammar of Koyee 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 97  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   https://lincom-shop.eu/
	

Book URL: https://lincom-shop.eu/LSASL-97-A-Grammar-of-Koyee/en 


Author: Tara Mani Rai

Hardback: ISBN:  9783969391129 Pages: 298 Price: Europe EURO 172


Abstract:

A Grammar of Koyee

Tara Mani Rai
Tribhuvan University
 
This grammar attempts to analyze the forms and functions of different
grammatical categories in Koyee at both the sentence and discourse levels and
compare them with other Tibeto-Burman languages from the typological
perspective. 
There are 12 oral vowels and 26 consonants in the Koyee language. Gender is
not grammatical in this language. It exhibits three categories of numbers:
singular, dual, and plural. It is a morphologically split ergative language. 
The nominals in Koyee are inflected for a number of cases which are marked in
two ways: case clitics, and postpositions. Mostly the adjectives in Koyee are
derived from verbs, nouns, and copulas. A number of adjectives in Koyee are
borrowed from Nepali.   
Since Koyee is one of the agglutinating languages, number, person, tense and
aspect in the Koyee are overtly realized in the affixation. There are various
types of verbs like verbs 'to be', benefactive verb, reflexive, reciprocal
verbs, existential, identical and motion verbs. Tense, aspect, modality and
mood in Koyee tend to appear as the complex category. Tense, aspect and
modality interact intensively in Koyee. There are eight types of basic clauses
in the language.

Dr. Tara Mani Rai is an assistant professor at Central Department of
Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. 

ISBN 9783969391129 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 97. 
298pp. 2022.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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