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). |
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... imperative is used to express requests , entreaties , commands , orders and permission . Examples of imperative verbs are given in ( 41 ) , ( 55 ) , ( 60 ) and ( 72 ) above . Imperatives are second person subject and agent forms which ...
... imperative is used to express requests , entreaties , commands , orders and permission . Examples of imperative verbs are given in ( 41 ) , ( 55 ) , ( 60 ) and ( 72 ) above . Imperatives are second person subject and agent forms which ...
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... imperative suffix MORPHEME GLOSS < -ka > am IMP ( E - IMP - s - 3ns - 23d ) The suffix < -ka > am occurs in all imperative forms and is analysed as the primary marker of the imperative inflection . The imperative suffix < -ka > am is ...
... imperative suffix MORPHEME GLOSS < -ka > am IMP ( E - IMP - s - 3ns - 23d ) The suffix < -ka > am occurs in all imperative forms and is analysed as the primary marker of the imperative inflection . The imperative suffix < -ka > am is ...
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... imperative agreement suffix < -m > am marks a transitive relation- ship between a second person singular agent and a ... imperative suffix < -m > am ( s → 3ns ) bears formal and semantic similarities with the simplex suffix < -mi > am ...
... imperative agreement suffix < -m > am marks a transitive relation- ship between a second person singular agent and a ... imperative suffix < -m > am ( s → 3ns ) bears formal and semantic similarities with the simplex suffix < -mi > am ...
Contents
CHAPTER ONE THE JERO LANGUAGE AND ITS RELATIVES | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONOLOGY | 51 |
CHAPTER THREE NOMINALS AND ADVERBIALS | 79 |
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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