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ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.
This is the first modern grammar of Nuosu written in English. Nuosu belongs to a little known section of Tibeto-Burman. The 2.5 Million ethnic Nuosu are part of the Yi nationality and live in Sichuan (China). This grammar informs Tibeto-Burman...
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This is the first modern grammar of Nuosu written in English. Nuosu belongs to a little known section of Tibeto-Burman. The 2.5 Million ethnic Nuosu are part of the Yi nationality and live in Sichuan (China). This grammar informs Tibeto-Burman linguists, typologists, scholars of language contact and foreign learners of Nuosu. Matthias Gerner, City University of Hong Kong. This is the first modern grammar of Nuosu written in English. Nuosu belongs to a little known section of Tibeto-Burman. The 2.5 Million ethnic Nuosu are part of the Yi nationality and live in Sichuan (China). This grammar informs Tibeto-Burman linguists, typologists, scholars of language contact and foreign learners of Nuosu
Acknowledgement; Preface; List of Tables; Abbreviations; 1 The people and their environment; 1.1 Nuosu history; 1.2 Nuosu society; 1.3 Nuosu culture and religion; 2 Language background; 2.1 Genetic affiliation of Nuosu; 2.2 Nuosu and its dialects; 2.3 Literature survey on Nuosu; 2.4 Typological profile of Nuosu; 2.4.1 Phonology; 2.4.2 Morphology; 2.4.3 Syntax; 2.4.4 Pragmatics; 3 Phonology; 3.1 Sounds and tones; 3.1.1 Consonants; A. Stops; B. Fricatives; C. Affricates; D. Nasals and laterals; 3.1.2 Vowels; 3.1.3 Tones; 3.2 Phonological processes; 3.2.1 Creaky voice; 3.2.2 Tone sandhi
3.2.3 Syllable structure3.3 The logographic script; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 Nuosu syllabary; 4 Word structure; 4.1 Word categories; 4.1.1 Open categories; 4.1.2 Closed and semi-closed categories; 4.2 Affixation; 4.2.1 Inventory of prefixes; A. Size prefixes; B. Fruit prefix syp-; C. gga- 'road'; D. co- 'person' (also as free morpheme); E. ddop- 'word'; F. hxie- 'heart'; G. ke- 'mouth'; H. mu- 'place, sky, steam'; I. o- 'head'; 4.2.2 Inventory of suffixes; A. Nominalizer suffixes; B. Gender/age suffixes; C. Adjectivizer suffixes; 4.3 Reduplication; 4.3.1 Nouns; 4.3.2 Classifiers
4.3.3 Personal pronouns4.3.4 Verbs; 4.3.5 Adjectives; 4.3.6 Colour ideophones; 4.3.7 Idioms; AABB; ABAB; ABCB; ABAC; ABCD; 4.4 Compounding; 4.4.1 Nominal compounds; A and B are unrelated in meaning; A and B are figuratively related; A and B are parallel; A is the material of which B is made; B denotes a part of A; A is the producer of B; A is processed into B; A describes the kind or nature of B; B is a unit of A; A denotes the body part on which B is worn; B is a piece of equipment used in a means of transport, A; B denotes the dwelling or storing place of A
A denotes the body part of disease BB is a representative symbol for A; A denotes the sign in Chinese zodiac for time unit B; 4.4.2 Verbal compounds; A and B are unrelated; A and B are antonymic; A and B are parallel; B denotes resultative state of A; 4.4.3 Mixed compounds; A is noun and B is verb; A is noun and B is classifier; A is verb and B is classifier; 5 The noun phrase; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Constructions of the noun phrase; 5.1.2 The order of components in the noun phrase; 5.2 Qualifying nouns; 5.2.1 Noun classifiers; A. Animate sortal classifiers; B. Inanimate sortal classifiers
C. Diverse small-range sortal classifiersD. Mixed nominal and verbal classifiers; E. Collectivizers; F. Partitioners and subclassifiers; G. Measure Words; H. Auto-classifiers; 5.2.2 Possession; 5.2.3 Adjectival modification; 5.2.4 Nominalization; A. The nominalizer su; B. The nominalizers ddu and dde; C. Appendix: The particle su; 5.3 Quantifying nouns; 5.3.1 Numerals; A. Cardinal numbers; B. Ordinal numbers; 5.3.2 Noun quantifiers; A. The quantifier mu 'whole/all'; B. The quantifier zzix ap zzi 'every'; C. The quantifier kep nyix 'several'; D. The quantifier ax pa 'other'
