A Grammar of Dolakha Newar 9783110198812, 9783110193039
Georg von der Gabelentz Award 2009 A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is the first fully comprehensive reference grammar of a
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Frontmatter
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Abbreviatitions
Chapter 1. Context
Chapter 2. Segmental phonetics and phonology
Chapter 3. Prosody
Chapter 4. Nouns and noun morphology
Chapter 5. Personal pronouns, interrogatives, indefinites and demonstratives
Chapter 6. Verbs and verb morphology
Chapter 7. Adjectivals
Chapter 8. Quantifiers
Chapter 9. Adverbials
Chapter 10. Particles and clitics of individuation and extension
Chapter 11. Noun-phrase structure
Chapter 12. Clause type
Chapter 13. Grammatical relations
Chapter 14. Constituent order
Chapter 15. Clause-level syntactic constructions
Chapter 16. Tense and aspect
Chapter 17. Nominalization and related structures
Chapter 18. Complementation
Chapter 19. The participial construction
Chapter 20. Adverbial clauses
Chapter 21. The sentence: Prosodic and syntactic structuring
Backmatter
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Mouton Grammar Library
A Grammar of Dolakha Newar
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Mouton Grammar Library 40
Editors Georg Bossong Bernard Comrie Matthew Dryer
Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York
A Grammar of Dolakha Newar by Carol Genetti
Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York
Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Genetti, Carol, 1961⫺ A grammar of Dolakha Newar / by Carol Genetti. p. cm. ⫺ (Mouton grammar library ; 40) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-11-019303-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Dolakha dialect ⫺ Grammar. 2. Newari language ⫺ Dialects ⫺ Nepal ⫺ Dolakha ⫺ Grammar. I. Title. PL3801.N595D656 2007 4951.49⫺dc22 2007007835
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