Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 5 A Grammar of LepchaIJCS comprises studies in various cultures on a comparative basis with the aim of reaching a common level of abstraction. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO PHONOLOGY AND ORTHOGRAPHY | 17 |
CHAPTER THREE PARTS OF SPEECH | 45 |
CHAPTER FOUR NOMINAL MORPHOLOGY | 53 |
CHAPTER FIVE VERBAL MORPHOLOGY | 103 |
CHAPTER SIX CLAUSEFINAL PARTICLES COORDINATION AND SUBORDINATION | 131 |
TEXT ONE THE MOUNTAIN DEVIL | 145 |
TEXT TWO THE STORY OF THE JACKAL | 165 |
TEXT THREE THE GREAT KING GYEBÚ | 169 |
TEXT FOUR TWO LEPCHA GIRLS | 185 |
TEXT FIVE THE LEGENDARY MÂNSALÓNG | 195 |
TEXT SIX ZÓNGGÚ | 207 |
GLOSSARY | 215 |
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Aa"n Aaib Aail AaVol ablative suffix ÂbU adjective adverbs áre auxiliary be.AST Bhutan chúk comitative suffix consonant Darjeeling Darjeeling district dative definite article denoted Diagram Dränjoke Dzongkha elder.sister example expressed factitive factitive marker graphemes Grünwedel Gyebú Áchúk hu-nu hudo-sa hunu huOdsa inflected stem ISBN 90 Kálenpúng Kalimpong kayU kón ksusa kyóng Lepcha language Lepcha orthography Lepcha script Lepcha words like.that little.bit locative suffix lS.OBL-GEN lyáng lyók main verb Mainwaring Mânsalóng maró meaning morpheme Mountain Devil múng nám Nepali ngún nominal nóng nouns numeral nyet nyí nyóm OAOl occur orthography particle pheme phoneme plural suffix postpositions pron pronouns rBalóng rBare realised retroflex romanise róng sabá sám saróng satet sayák shú Sikkim speaker spelt Sprigg story Sungnyít sVor syllable-final position syllable-initial position syllables Támsáng taVsa tháp Tibetan transliteration voiceless vowel Zónggú Zs sang