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

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Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

LIST OF DIAGRAMS AND MAPS

ABBREVIATIONS

EDITORIAL FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

THE JERO LANGUAGE AND ITS RELATIVES

1.1 The Kiranti languages

1.2 The Jero language and its dialects

1.3 The Jero language and its linguistic relatives

1.3.1 Lexical and phonological comparison between 13 languages

1.3.1.1 Lexical isoglosses

1.3.1.2 Phonological developments

1.3.1.3 Relative closeness between pairs of Kiranti languages

1.3.2 Morphological comparison between W. Kiranti languages 1.3.3 The distance between Jero and Wambule

CHAPTER TWO

PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONOLOGY

2.1 Vowels

2.1.1 Distinctive length contrasts between vowels

2.1.2 Neutralisations

2.1.3 Nasalised vowels

2.2 Consonants

2.2.1 Obstruents

2.2.2 Nasals

2.2.3 The fricative, trill and laterals

2.2.4 Approximants

2.2.5 Consonant clusters

2.3 Morphophonology

2.3.1 Morphophonemic and phonemic vowel length

2.3.2 Bound morphemes

2.3.3 Full and abbreviated morphs

2.3.4 Final and post-final

2.3.5 Post-agreement suffixes with initial 2.4 Phonology of Nepali loans

2.5 The orthography and rule of transcription

CHAPTER THREE

NOMINALS AND ADVERBIALS

3.1 Improductive nominal suffixes

3.1.1 The suffix 'person'

3.1.2 The suffix 'grain'

3.1.3 The suffix 'water'

3.1.4 The suffix 'tree, wood'

3.1.5 The suffix 'fruit'

3.1.6 The suffix 'small object'

3.1.7 The suffixes 'day'

3.1.8 The suffix 'bird'

3.1.9 The suffix 'flesh, meat'

3.1.10 The masculine suffixes

3.1.11 The feminine suffixes

3.2 Number markers

3.3 Case markers

3.3.1 The source marker

3.3.2 The locative marker 3.3.3 The comitative marker

3.3.4 The ablative marker

3.3.5 The genitive marker

3.3.6 The similaritive marker

3.4 Postpositions

3.4.1 The directive postposition

3.4.2 The postpositions 'in front of, before'

3.4.3 The postposition 'behind, after'

3.4.4 Postpositions of location

3.4.5 The postposition 'beside'

3.4.6 The postpositions 'in the company of' and 'together'

3.4.7 The postposition 'without'

3.4.8 The postposition 'on top of'

3.4.9 The postposition 'aside from'

3.4.10 The postposition 'than'

3.4.11 The postposition 'next to' 3.4.12 The patient postposition

3.4.13 The postposition 'as far as'

3.5 Discourse markers

3.5.1 The marker 'also, too, even'

3.5.2 The marker 'exactly, precisely'

3.5.3 The marker 'on the contrary'

3.5.4 The marker 'only'

3.5.5 The theme marker

3.5.6 The contrastive topic marker

3.6 Personal pronouns

3.7 Possessive pronouns

3.8 Demonstratives

3.8.1 Demonstrative pronouns

3.8.2 Demonstrative adverbs of place and direction

3.8.3 Demonstratives of manner

3.8.4 Adverbs of altitude

3.9 Indefinite and interrogative words

3.10 Adjectives