A Grammar of Dolakha Newar / / Carol Genetti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Genetti, Carol,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 40
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (595 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110198812; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110219517; 9783110219524; 9783110219548; 9783110219470
• ISSN: 0933-7636
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110198812
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Carol Genetti.

A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is the first fully comprehensive reference grammar of a Newar variety. Dolakha Newar is of particular interest as it is member of the mutually unintelligible eastern branch of the family, so allows for an important comparative perspective on this significant Tibeto-Burman language. In addition to a chapter on phonetics and phonology, the book contains a separate chapter on prosody. There are also distinct chapters on each word class, with full discussion of the morphological and syntactic properties of each class. The book provides an extensive study of syntax, including complete chapters on constructions, clause structure, constituent order, grammatical relations, nominalization, complementation, the participial construction, and the complex sentence, as well as a detailed chapter on tense and aspect. Brimming with examples from natural discourse, the book couples rigorous description of the language's structures with full discussion of how the structures are used in connected speech. Each analysis is presented with full argumentation and competing analyses are contrasted and discussed. The result is a rich, readable, and beautifully argued portrait of a language and how it works.