Full Description
A Grammar of Darma provides the first comprehensive description of this Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Uttarakhand, India. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework and draws on a corpus of data gathered through elicitation, observation and recordings of natural discourse. Every effort has been made to describe day-to-day language, so whenever possible, illustrative examples are taken from extemporaneous speech and contextualized. Sections of the grammar should appeal widely to scholars interested in South Asia's languages and cultures, including discussions of the socio-cultural setting, the sound system, morphosyntactic, clause and discourse structure. The grammar's interlinearized texts and glossary provide a trove of useful information for comparative linguists working on Tibeto-Burman languages and anyone interested in the world's less-commonly spoken languages.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Maps
Abbreviations
1 Preliminaries
2 Sound System and Orthography
3 An Acoustic Analysis of Sounds in Darma
4 Morpho˗Phonology
5 Noun Phrases, Nouns, and Nominal Morphology
6 Pronouns and Demonstratives
7 Possession
8 Quantifiers
9 Adjectives, Adjectivals, and Their Modifiers
10 The Structure of the Noun Phrase
11 Verbs and Associated Morphology
12 Constituent Order and Roles Markers (Reprise)
13 Adverbs
14 Discourse Markers
15 Clause and Sentence Structure
16 Combined Clauses
17 Discourse and Texts
Appendix A: Place Names, Language Names, and Other Information
Appendix B: Recordings
Appendix C: Formant Measurements
Appendix D: Glossary
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