A Grammar of Jero: With a Historical Comparative Study of the Kiranti LanguagesThis description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the endangered (Tibeto-Burman) Jero language as spoken in eastern Nepal, appears in sequel to the author's 2004 Grammar of Wambule, the language most closely related to Jero. It pictures the complex-pronominalising language of the Jero Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal. With a historical comparative study of the Kiranti languages, the branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family to which both Jero and Wambule belong. An exhaustive and model reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology and linguistic theory. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl). |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE THE JERO LANGUAGE AND ITS RELATIVES | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONOLOGY | 51 |
CHAPTER THREE NOMINALS AND ADVERBIALS | 79 |
CHAPTER FOUR FINITE VERB FORMS | 125 |
CHAPTER FIVE NON FINITE DEVERBATIVES | 183 |
CHAPTER SIX GERUNDS | 195 |
CHAPTER SEVEN VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND COMPLEX VERBS | 207 |
APPENDIX ONE JEROENGLISH LEXICON | 217 |
APPENDIX TWO ENGLISHJERO LEXICON | 279 |
APPENDIX THREE AFFIRMATIVE AND IMPERATIVE PARADIGMS | 323 |
APPENDIX FOUR COMPARATIVE KIRANTI WORD LIST | 337 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 401 |
BRILLS TIBETAN STUDIES LIBRARY | 405 |
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actant adjective of purpose adverbs agreement morpheme agreement suffixes allomorphs Amboțe auxiliary Bahing bakcamm Bantawa Chamling consonant contrast cooked.grain Diagram dumcamm Dumi Eastern Kiranti expected factual verbal adjective garnu gerund Hayu hunu I/we imperative initial unexplained Jero Jero and Wambule Khaling khus Kiranti languages Kulung lexical Limbu loans from Nepali marks me>am mi>am Michailovsky 1994 middle verb Mohanṭāre morphophonological nasal Nepali nominal noun number agreement obstruents pacamm vt-2a pacapa patient perfect gerund periphrastic person and number person dual phoneme phonological phrasal point of reference post-final postposition preglottalised pronouns Proto-Kiranti Proto-Tibeto-Burman realised reflected in words root alternation root-final second person simplex agreement suffix marker suffix MORPHEME suffix MORPHEME GLOSS suffix ni>am Sunwar syllable syllable-final Thulung transitive relationship transitive verbs Ungu verb forms verb root verbal adjective Verbs ending vi-la-i vi-lb vi-lc vm-la vocoid vowel Yamphu