34.1539, Books: A Sketch of Nubri Morphosyntax: Nanda Dhakal

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Date: 11-May-2023
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Sketch of Nubri Morphosyntax: Nanda Dhakal

Title: A Sketch of Nubri Morphosyntax
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 516
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
                https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/LWM-516-A-Sketch-of-Nubri-Morphosyntax/en

Author: Dubi Nanda Dhakal
Paperback: ISBN: 9783969391624 Pages: 102 Price: Europe EURO 62.80
Abstract:

A Sketch of Nubri Morphosyntax

Dubi Nanda Dhakal
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Nubri is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the high mountainous areas
in Gorkha district of western Nepal. The Government of Nepal
enumerates the Nubri community as ‘Larke’. It is tonal, and bears a
number of features of Sinospheric languages. Nubri has distinct sets
of plain and honorific vocabularies of nouns and verbs.
        The nouns inflect for classifier, emphasis, number and case.
The definiteness and indefiniteness in Nubri is expressed by using the
clitics. It seems that Nubri is an ergative-absolutive language, but
the ergativtity is optional. Most of the pronouns in Nubri resemble to
that in Tibetan varieties. Although there are a very few monosyllabic
adjectives, most adjectives are polysyllabic. The comparative and
superlative forms are morphologically derived.
        The past conjunct suffix is -hin and the past disjunct suffix
is -soŋ. Nubri has the finite forms of verbs particularly in the past
tense, which was traditionally described as ‘conjunct/disjunct’ in
some other languages. Some aspects are generally expressed by serial
verb constructions.
        Nubri shares a number of features of SOV languages in its
word-order correlations. Some modifiers precede the head noun in the
noun phrases whereas others follow it. The negative suffix is -m. The
complement clauses are marked by the suffix -ken, and -tsi in Nubri
along with the grammaticalized form of the verb lap 'say'. Nubri
permits different kinds of suffixes in relative clauses decided by the
semantic role of the noun which is modified. The adverbial clauses in
Nubri typically precede the main clauses. There are three non-finite
forms of verbs used in the converbal constructions in Nubri. Nubri
shares a number of morphological features with Kyirong Tibetan.

ISBN 9783969391624. 102pp. Languages of the World/Materials 516. 2023.

Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Written In: English (eng)

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