Grammar of Semelai

Klappentext This book provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Semelai, a previously undescribed and endangered language. Zusammenfassung This book provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Semelai! a previously undescribed and endangered Aslian (Mon-Khmer) language of the Malay Peninsula. Nicole Kruspe looks at a wide range of its grammatical! morphological and phonological characteristics! and her discussion is complemented by a large number of illustrative examples and texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Semelai; 2. Phonology and phonotactics; 3. Morphology; 4. Word classes; 5. The verb; 6. Pronouns: personal, ignorative, and demonstrative; 7. The noun phrase; 8. Prepositions and the prepositional phrase; 9. Grammatical relations, constituent order and coding strategies; 10. Basic clauses; 11. Complex clauses; 12. Expressives; 13. The quotative marker, interjections and discourse clitics; 14. Texts.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Kruspe, Nicole (La Trobe University Kruspe, Kruspe Nicole
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521144995
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14499-5
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Cambridge Grammatical Descript; Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Other Southeast Asian languages, Austroasiatic languages