A Grammar of Jero: With a Historical Comparative Study of the Kiranti Languages

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Brill, 2005 - Foreign Language Study - 404 pages
This 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).

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... emerge , bring out ' , * s- twak ' come out , go out , emerge ' . / * kw- / : Jero mɔrcapa ; Wambule 6warcam ' come out ' , ɓar- cam ' throw out , throw away ' ; Bahing ward- ( Michail- ovsky 1994 ) ; Sunwar bwar - tsa ' shoot up ...

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Contents

CHAPTER ONE THE JERO LANGUAGE AND ITS RELATIVES
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CHAPTER TWO PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONOLOGY
51
CHAPTER THREE NOMINALS AND ADVERBIALS
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action adverbs agent agreement morpheme alternation auxiliary Bahing Bantawa become bird bite bound cause Chamling close conditioned consonant contrast cooked Diagram distinction dual Dumi ending event example expected expressed fall final forms gerund give given grain Hayu head I/we imperative indicates initial unexplained Inne intransitive Jero Khaling Kiranti languages Kulung Limbu loan lung manner marker marks means Michailovsky middle morph MORPHEME GLOSS negative Nepali nominal noun obstruents occur one's pacamm pacamm vt-2a pacapa patient person singular phoneme phonological plural position postposition present Proto-Kiranti Proto-Tibeto-Burman realised reconstructed reference second person simplex stop suffix Sunwar syllable third person Thulung tree verb root verbal adjective vi-la-i voiced voiceless vowel Wambule Yamphu

About the author (2005)

Jean Robert M.L. Opgenort, Ph.D. (2002) in Descriptive Linguistics, Leiden University, is Post-Doctoral Fellow at Leiden University. He has written A Grammar of Wambule (2004) and published several articles on the Kiranti languages of the Himalayas.

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TitleA Grammar of Jero: With a Historical Comparative Study of the Kiranti Languages
Brill's Tibetan studies library, ISSN 1568-6183
Volume 3; Volume 5 of Brill's Tibetan studies library: Languages of the greater Himalayan region, ISSN 1568-6183
Languages of the greater Himalayan region
AuthorJean Robert Opgenort
Editionillustrated
PublisherBrill, 2005
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized14 May 2008
ISBN9004145052, 9789004145054
Length404 pages
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Foreign Language Study / Southeast Asian Languages
Social Science / General
  
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