{"product_id":"a-grammar-of-kham-paperback-9780521120517","title":"A Grammar of Kham (Paperback) 9780521120517","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Grammar of Kham\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid E. Watters (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521120517, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 1 October 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e504 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 2.6 cm, 0.8 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. The people and their language\u003cbr\u003e 2. Segmental phonology\u003cbr\u003e 3. Tonology\u003cbr\u003e 4. Nouns and noun morphology\u003cbr\u003e 5. Verbs and verb morphology\u003cbr\u003e 6. Modifiers and adjectivals\u003cbr\u003e 7. Locatives, dimensionals and temporal adverbs\u003cbr\u003e 8. Adverbs and adverbials\u003cbr\u003e 9. Minor word classes\u003cbr\u003e 10. Noun phrases, nominalizations and relative clauses\u003cbr\u003e 11. Simple clauses, transitivity and voice\u003cbr\u003e 12. Tense, aspect and modality\u003cbr\u003e 13. The modality of certainty, obligation, unexpected information\u003cbr\u003e 14. Non-declarative speech acts\u003cbr\u003e 15. Interclausal relations and sentence structure\u003cbr\u003e 16. Nominalized verb forms in discourse\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Kham verb in historical perspective\u003cbr\u003e 18. Texts\u003cbr\u003e 19. Vocabulary\u003cbr\u003e References.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Regional studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Regional studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Regional%20studies%20%5BGTB%5D%22\"\u003eGTB\u003c\/a\u003e], Linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Linguistics%20%5BCF%5D%22\"\u003eCF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005227553048,"sku":"9780521120517","price":40.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521120517i_2023eced-1b32-42b4-a176-8d22d937dc60.jpg?v=1691371685","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-grammar-of-kham-paperback-9780521120517","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}