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A Grammar of Kham

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First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjectivals. Its verb morphology has implications for the understanding of the history of the entire Tibeto-Burman family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, deals with all major aspects of the language including segmental phonology, tone, word classes, noun phrases, nominalizations, transitivity alterations, tense-aspect-modality, non-declarative speech acts, and complex sentence structure. It provides copious examples throughout the exposition and includes three short native texts and a vocabulary of more than 400 words, many of them reconstructed for Proto-Kham and Proto-Tibeto-Burman.

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Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions

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: Cambridge University Press., 2002

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English

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9780511486883

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computer

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online resource

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Area Studies,
General Interest, Language and Linguistics
Asian Studies, European and World Literature:
Other Languages and Linguistics,

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David E. Watters,

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Arin

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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486883

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