Dienstag, 27.02.2007
Plaisier: A Grammar of Lepcha
Plaisier, Heleen:
A Grammar of Lepcha / Heleen Plaisier. - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2006. - xvi, 256 S. - (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region ; 5) (Brill's Tibetan studies library ; 5)
ISBN 978-90-04-15525-1 / 90-04-15525-2
EUR 89,00
Hochschulschrift. Zugl.: Leiden, Univ., Diss., 2006. Teilweise auch als elektronische Ressource verfügbar.
Beschreibung
The Lepcha language has been shrouded in a veil of tantalising mystique ever since Colonel George Mainwaring in the 1870s disseminated the myth that Lepcha was the most perfect of tongues and represented the primordial language of men and fairies. The present book is the first ever comprehensive reference grammar of this language, spoken by the indigenous tribal people of Darjeeling, Sikkim and Kalimpong. Some popular lore about Lepcha has a firm basis in fact, however. Lepcha represents a branch unto itself within the Tibeto-Burman languages. Lepcha is written in its own unique script. This highly readable grammar explains the structure of the language, its sound system and salient features, and includes a lexicon and cultural history. [Brill]
Inhalt
Editorial foreword. vii
List of figures. ix
Abbreviations and conventions. xi
Acknowledgements. xv
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION. 1
CHAPTER TWO: PHONOLOGY AND ORTHOGRAPHY. 17
2.1 Vowels. 17
2.2 Consonants. 21
2.3 Syllables. 31
2.4 Native Lepcha orthography. 32
2.5 Romanisation and spelling. 38
CHAPTER THREE: PARTS OF SPEECH. 45
3.1 Derivational affixes. 45
3.2 Gender-specific endings. 47
3.3 Compounding. 49
3.4 Reduplication. 50
3.5 Causative verbs. 50
CHAPTER FOUR: NOMINAL MORPHOLOGY. 53
4.1 Number. 54
4.2 The definite and indefinite article. 60
4.3 Pronouns. 66
4.3.1 Personal pronouns. 66
4.3.2 Demonstrative pronouns. 68
4.3.3 Interrogative and relative pronouns. 72
4.3.4 Indefinite pronouns. 74
4.4 The ablative suffix. 77
4.5 The lative suffix. 79
4.6 The genitive and comitative suffixes. 82
4.7 The locative suffix. 87
4.8 The dative suffix. 89
4.9 Adjectives. 92
4.10 Comparative and superlative constructions. 93
4.11 Numerals. 94
4.12 Telling time. 99
CHAPTER FIVE: VERBAL MORPHOLOGY. 103
5.1 Verb stems. 103
5.2 Permission, ability, opportunity, exigency. 106
5.3 Verbs 'to be'. 110
5.4 Negation. 112
5.5 Gerund and the participle. 113
5.6 Infinitive. 115
5.7 Aorist. 117
5.8 Progressive tense. 119
5.9 Non-preterite tense. 120
5.10 The factitive marker with verbs. 121
5.11 Aktionsart auxiliaries. 122
5.11.1 The perfect auxiliary. 122
5.11.2 The resultative auxiliary. 123
5.11.3 The exhaustive auxiliary. 124
5.11.4 The completive auxiliary. 125
5.12 The locative suffix with verbs. 125
5.13 The ablative suffix with verbs. 126
CHAPTER SIX: CLAUSE-FINAL PARTICLES, COORDINATION AND SUBORDINATION. 131
6.1 The request particle. 131
6.2 The authorative particle. 132
6.3 The dubitative particle. 132
6.4 The possibility particle. 133
6.5 The inferential particle. 133
6.6 The certainty particle. 135
6.7 The discovery particle. 136
6.8 The reported speech particles. 137
6.9 Coordination. 138
6.10 Subordination. 141
6.11 The factitive marker. 143
Text one: The mountain devil. 145
Text two: The story of the jackal. 165
Text three: The great king Gyeb? 169
Text four: Two Lepcha girls. 185
Text five: The legendary Mansalong. 195
Text six: Zenggi 207
Glossary. 215
Bibliography. 247
Index. 253
Autorin
(Bildquelle: Lepcha.info)
HELEEN PLAISIER (*1968) defended her Ph.D. in Leiden in 2006. She published a descriptive catalogue of the extensive collection of old Lepcha manuscripts at Leiden in 2003 and is currently working on a critical edition of an unpublished late nineteenth-century Lepcha dictionary. Faculty profile.
Quellen: Brill; Kinokuniya Bookweb.
Schlagwörter: Lepcha; Tibeto-Birmanische Sprachen; Sprachwissenschaft; Grammatik
A Grammar of Lepcha / Heleen Plaisier. - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2006. - xvi, 256 S. - (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region ; 5) (Brill's Tibetan studies library ; 5)
ISBN 978-90-04-15525-1 / 90-04-15525-2
EUR 89,00
Hochschulschrift. Zugl.: Leiden, Univ., Diss., 2006. Teilweise auch als elektronische Ressource verfügbar.
Beschreibung
The Lepcha language has been shrouded in a veil of tantalising mystique ever since Colonel George Mainwaring in the 1870s disseminated the myth that Lepcha was the most perfect of tongues and represented the primordial language of men and fairies. The present book is the first ever comprehensive reference grammar of this language, spoken by the indigenous tribal people of Darjeeling, Sikkim and Kalimpong. Some popular lore about Lepcha has a firm basis in fact, however. Lepcha represents a branch unto itself within the Tibeto-Burman languages. Lepcha is written in its own unique script. This highly readable grammar explains the structure of the language, its sound system and salient features, and includes a lexicon and cultural history. [Brill]
Inhalt
Editorial foreword. vii
List of figures. ix
Abbreviations and conventions. xi
Acknowledgements. xv
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION. 1
CHAPTER TWO: PHONOLOGY AND ORTHOGRAPHY. 17
2.1 Vowels. 17
2.2 Consonants. 21
2.3 Syllables. 31
2.4 Native Lepcha orthography. 32
2.5 Romanisation and spelling. 38
CHAPTER THREE: PARTS OF SPEECH. 45
3.1 Derivational affixes. 45
3.2 Gender-specific endings. 47
3.3 Compounding. 49
3.4 Reduplication. 50
3.5 Causative verbs. 50
CHAPTER FOUR: NOMINAL MORPHOLOGY. 53
4.1 Number. 54
4.2 The definite and indefinite article. 60
4.3 Pronouns. 66
4.3.1 Personal pronouns. 66
4.3.2 Demonstrative pronouns. 68
4.3.3 Interrogative and relative pronouns. 72
4.3.4 Indefinite pronouns. 74
4.4 The ablative suffix. 77
4.5 The lative suffix. 79
4.6 The genitive and comitative suffixes. 82
4.7 The locative suffix. 87
4.8 The dative suffix. 89
4.9 Adjectives. 92
4.10 Comparative and superlative constructions. 93
4.11 Numerals. 94
4.12 Telling time. 99
CHAPTER FIVE: VERBAL MORPHOLOGY. 103
5.1 Verb stems. 103
5.2 Permission, ability, opportunity, exigency. 106
5.3 Verbs 'to be'. 110
5.4 Negation. 112
5.5 Gerund and the participle. 113
5.6 Infinitive. 115
5.7 Aorist. 117
5.8 Progressive tense. 119
5.9 Non-preterite tense. 120
5.10 The factitive marker with verbs. 121
5.11 Aktionsart auxiliaries. 122
5.11.1 The perfect auxiliary. 122
5.11.2 The resultative auxiliary. 123
5.11.3 The exhaustive auxiliary. 124
5.11.4 The completive auxiliary. 125
5.12 The locative suffix with verbs. 125
5.13 The ablative suffix with verbs. 126
CHAPTER SIX: CLAUSE-FINAL PARTICLES, COORDINATION AND SUBORDINATION. 131
6.1 The request particle. 131
6.2 The authorative particle. 132
6.3 The dubitative particle. 132
6.4 The possibility particle. 133
6.5 The inferential particle. 133
6.6 The certainty particle. 135
6.7 The discovery particle. 136
6.8 The reported speech particles. 137
6.9 Coordination. 138
6.10 Subordination. 141
6.11 The factitive marker. 143
Text one: The mountain devil. 145
Text two: The story of the jackal. 165
Text three: The great king Gyeb? 169
Text four: Two Lepcha girls. 185
Text five: The legendary Mansalong. 195
Text six: Zenggi 207
Glossary. 215
Bibliography. 247
Index. 253
Autorin
(Bildquelle: Lepcha.info)
HELEEN PLAISIER (*1968) defended her Ph.D. in Leiden in 2006. She published a descriptive catalogue of the extensive collection of old Lepcha manuscripts at Leiden in 2003 and is currently working on a critical edition of an unpublished late nineteenth-century Lepcha dictionary. Faculty profile.
Quellen: Brill; Kinokuniya Bookweb.
Schlagwörter: Lepcha; Tibeto-Birmanische Sprachen; Sprachwissenschaft; Grammatik
Joseph: Rabha
Joseph, U[mbavu] V[arghese]:
Rabha / U. V. Joseph. - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2007. - xxxii, 864 S. - (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region ; 1) (Brill's Tibetan studies library ; 5/1)
ISBN 978-90-04-13321-1 / 90-04-13321-6
EUR 199,00
Hochschulschrift. Teil. zugl.: Pune, Univ., Diss., 1999
Beschreibung
The Rabha?s inhabit the plains on both sides of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, in the North East of India. Their language is Rabha, a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family.
This is the first ever comprehensive grammar of the Róngdani dialect of Rabha, as spoken in, a.o., the Rabha heartlands. Based on extensive field work by the author, this work is yet another significant step in the meticulous task of piecing together the jigsaw of Himalayan languages as undertaken by George van Driem and his team. Given the steady decline of the Rabha language in favour of Assamese, all those interested in the language and history of the Himalayas and Northern India will welcome this volume.
With a Rabha dictionary/vocabulary, and a series of key Rabha texts shedding light on its people?s customs. [Brill]
Autor
U.V. Joseph, Ph.D. (1998) in Linguistics, Deccan Colleage Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune, India. Profil.
Quellen: Brill; IIAS; Amazon.
Schlagwörter: Sprachwissenschaft; Grammatik; Tibeto-Birmanische Sprachen
Rabha / U. V. Joseph. - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2007. - xxxii, 864 S. - (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region ; 1) (Brill's Tibetan studies library ; 5/1)
ISBN 978-90-04-13321-1 / 90-04-13321-6
EUR 199,00
Hochschulschrift. Teil. zugl.: Pune, Univ., Diss., 1999
Beschreibung
The Rabha?s inhabit the plains on both sides of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, in the North East of India. Their language is Rabha, a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family.
This is the first ever comprehensive grammar of the Róngdani dialect of Rabha, as spoken in, a.o., the Rabha heartlands. Based on extensive field work by the author, this work is yet another significant step in the meticulous task of piecing together the jigsaw of Himalayan languages as undertaken by George van Driem and his team. Given the steady decline of the Rabha language in favour of Assamese, all those interested in the language and history of the Himalayas and Northern India will welcome this volume.
With a Rabha dictionary/vocabulary, and a series of key Rabha texts shedding light on its people?s customs. [Brill]
Autor
U.V. Joseph, Ph.D. (1998) in Linguistics, Deccan Colleage Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune, India. Profil.
Quellen: Brill; IIAS; Amazon.
Schlagwörter: Sprachwissenschaft; Grammatik; Tibeto-Birmanische Sprachen
