A Grammar of Sunwar: Descriptive Grammar, Paradigms, Texts and GlossaryThis description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is based on extensive field work by the author and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by sections on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the morphology of Sunwar. Verb paradigms, glossed texts, a Sunwar-English glossary and bibliographical references are also presented. Contact between the Sunwar and Nepali languages resulted in language change, most visible in the verbal system, where the older biactantial agreement system typical for Kiranti languages disappeared and suffix conjugations emerged. This book will interest those interested in descriptive linguistics, language change and languages of South Asia. |
Contents
Chapter One Background information | 1 |
Chapter Two Phonology | 23 |
Chapter Three The writing system | 45 |
Chapter Four Nominal morphology | 51 |
Chapter Five Finite verbs | 109 |
Chapter Six Nonfinite verbs | 191 |
Chapter Seven Paradigms | 199 |
Chapter Eight Texts | 209 |
82 Religious matters | 211 |
83 Family life | 225 |
84 Work | 242 |
85 Autobiographical scetches | 249 |
86 Miscellaneous matters | 257 |
Chapter Nine Glossary | 269 |
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Common terms and phrases
adverbs affirmative preterite tense agent agreement markers allomorph allophone auxiliary bācā Bahing bāta be-NPT3s Bhujī C2vt C3vt C4vi Candī coda conjugations C1 conjugations C1vt deity denoting deutā devanāgarī dialects exist-NPT3s Genetti gerund glottal stop have-to.NPT+3s intransitive kām Kathmandu Kiranti languages lexemes main verb māl.ba marking meko minu morpheme gloss nāmin nasalisation Nepali non-preterite tense number markers occurs Opgenort pacā pachi pai.ni.mi paradigm person and number personal pronouns phoneme plosive portemanteau morpheme postposition preterite tense preterite tense marker priest pron PT+1s PT+3s pujā Rāmechāp Rāpacā reflexive marker reflexive verbs rice Saipu second person singular shaman simplex verb speakers of Sunwar Stem Group suffix marker Sunwar Sunwar language Sunwar speakers Surom syllable Table texts third person dual third person singular tion transitive verbs translated into Nepali verb stem verbal noun verbs of conjugation village vowel Wambule written Sunwar WrtSH youpol