A Grammar of Wambule: Grammar, Lexicon, Texts, and Cultural Survey of a Kiranti Tribe of Eastern Nepal

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BRILL, Jan 1, 2004 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 900 pages
This 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).

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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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Jean Robert M.L. Opgenort, Ph.D. (2002) in Descriptive Linguistics, Leiden University, is Post-Doctoral Fellow at Leiden University. He has published several articles on the Wambule language and its linguistic relatives.

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