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Author: Tony Duff
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Published: 2018-12-20
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9789937572323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book features the "Great Living Tree" Tibetan grammars, which are the standard beginner's texts that Tibetans use for studying Tibetan grammar. Tibetan grammar has often been taught by westerners in a way that does not reflect how Tibetans understand their own grammar. This and our other books authentically show Tibetan grammar.
Author: Bénédicte Vilgrain
Publisher: Serie d Ecriture
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781936194223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in French as separate chapters named for the letter being discussed. Written in a mix of prose and poetry to reflect the writing style Thonmi Sambhota, the founder of Tibetan grammar.
Author: Marius Zemp
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-05-29
Total Pages: 993
ISBN-13: 9004366318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn A Grammar of Purik Tibetan, Marius Zemp offers a comprehensive description of the phonologically archaic Tibetan variety spoken in Kargil, the capital of a region called Purik, situated in the state of Jammu & Kashmir, India. This book contains the most thorough and insightful description of the verbal system of a Tibetic language yet written and will be particularly relevant for scholars studying evidentiality. It also includes highly valuable discussions of a syntactically and pragmatically well-defined class of ideophones which Zemp calls “dramatizers” and of prosody – topics which are too often neglected in language descriptions. Finally, this book goes beyond what others have done in that Purik data are used to elucidate our understanding of Classical Tibetan and its origins.
Author: David E. Watters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-10-01
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1139436082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjectivals. Its verb morphology has implications for the understanding of the history of the entire Tibeto-Burman family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, deals with all major aspects of the language including segmental phonology, tone, word classes, noun phrases, nominalizations, transitivity alterations, tense-aspect-modality, non-declarative speech acts, and complex sentence structure. It provides copious examples throughout the exposition and includes three short native texts and a vocabulary of more than 400 words, many of them reconstructed for Proto-Kham and Proto-Tibeto-Burman.
Author: Erik E. Andvik
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9004178279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A Grammar of Tshangla" is the first major linguistic description of Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Bhutan, northeast India, and southwest China. Written from a functional-typological perspective, it contains a wealth of illustrative examples both from elicited data and from spontaneously generated texts. It is a truly comprehensive description, including sections on phonology, lexicon, morphophonemics, morphosyntactic structure, clause-concatenating constructions, as well as discourse-pragmatic features. The volume will be of interest to language students, and to linguists and ethnographic scholars seeking to understand the Bhutanese and South Asian linguistic situation. The large amount of raw language data presented here make this "Grammar of Tshangla" an indispensable tool for students of Tibeto-Burman comparative linguistics and morphosyntactic theory in general.
Author: Sándor Kőrösi Csoma
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Published: 1834
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephan V. Beyer
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780791410998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong Asian languages, Tibetan is second only to Chinese in the depth of its historical record, with texts dating back as far as the eighth and ninth centuries, written in an alphabetic script that preserves the contemporaneous phonological features of the language. The Classical Tibetan Language is the first comprehensive description of the Tibetan language and is distinctive in that it treats the classical Tibetan language on its own terms rather than by means of descriptive categories appropriate to other languages, as has traditionally been the case. Beyer presents the language as a medium of literary expression with great range, power, subtlety, and humor, not as an abstract object. He also deals comprehensively with a wide variety of linguistic phenomena as they are actually encountered in the classical texts, with numerous examples of idioms, common locutions, translation devices, neologisms, and dialectal variations.
Author: Sarat Chandra Das
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ralf Vollmann
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9783701101290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Timotheus Adrianus Bodt
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-01-13
Total Pages: 789
ISBN-13: 9004409483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa), Timotheus Adrianus (Tim) Bodt provides the first comprehensive description of any of the Western Kho-Bwa languages, a sub-group of eight linguistic varieties of the Kho-Bwa cluster (Tibeto-Burman). Duhumbi is spoken by 600 people in the Chug valley in West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Duhumbi people, known to the outside world as Chugpa or Chug Monpa, belong to the Monpa Scheduled Tribe. Despite that affiliation, Duhumbi is not intelligible to speakers of any of the other Monpa languages except Khispi (Lishpa). The volume Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa) describes all aspects of the language, including phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax and discourse. Moreover, it also contains links to additional resources freely accessible on-line.
