A Grammar of Wambule: Grammar, Lexicon, Texts, and Cultural Survey of a Kiranti Tribe of Eastern NepalThis book is more than the first comprehensive description of the fascinating and complex (endangered) language of the Wambule Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal; it is a true model for a holistic approach on language documentation, where the phonetics, phonology, morphophonology, morphology, morphosyntax, syntax and pragmatics are interwoven into one organic, living whole. An exhaustive reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, linguistic theory and Wambule society and culture, and as such indispensable for any linguistic and anthropological library. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl). |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER THREE MORPHOPHONOLOGY 3 1 Morphophonemic and phonemic vowel length | 3 |
CHAPTER TWO | 55 |
CHAPTER EIGHT NONFINITE | 56 |
texts | 120 |
markers | 145 |
altitude | 150 |
markers | 166 |
morpheme | 300 |
CHAPTER SEVEN FINITE VERB | 313 |
leave | 315 |
morpheme | 344 |
actionis | 357 |
adjective | 378 |
motion | 407 |
Agendar | 456 |
with | 188 |
markers | 194 |
CHAPTER FIVE NOMINALS | 201 |
pronouns | 208 |
direction | 215 |
intensifiers | 233 |
CHAPTER | 249 |
264 | 289 |
seasons | 473 |
swamdi | 490 |
APPENDIX TWO WAMBULEENGLISH | 543 |
LEXICON | 753 |
APPENDIX FOUR | 861 |
APPENDIX FIVE THE CHOURASYA | 885 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 895 |
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Common terms and phrases
1nseAS 1peAS 3npA actant adverb AFF HRS agreement suffixes all-EMPH allomorphs auxiliary Bahādur Rāī be/sit bound morpheme Candra ceremony clan clause consonant contrast dialect dyam EMPH factual verbal adjective finite verb gerund grammaticalised he/they Hilepānī his/her huncha hwam I/we imperative morpheme indefinite and interrogative interrogative words intransitive intransitive and middle Jero Kathmandu Kiranti languages kwal kwalo loan from Nepali locative manner SRC marks middle verbs morph morphological morphophonemes morphophonological Murdstone muyo nakso Nepali Nepali by means nominal noun number agreement number markers paradigmatically patient person and number person dual pheme phonemic phonological plural post-final postposition PPT PFG Räï raicha realised rice root-final roots ending sabai Santa-Bhes say.to second person singular agent suffix there-ABL third person singular thiyo Tibeto-Burman transitive verbs translated into Nepali verb forms verb root vi-la-i vocoid vowel Wambule Rai Wamdyal उङ