A grammar of Kharia : a South Munda language /

A grammar of Kharia : a South Munda language /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Peterson, John M. (John Michael)
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 474 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English Munda
Series:	Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; v. 1 Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; v. 1.
Subject:	Kharia language -- Grammar. Kharia language -- Grammar. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11258227

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ISBN:	9789004190092 9004190090 9789004187207 9004187200
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-459) and indexes. Text in English and Kharia. Print version record.
Summary:	Kharia, spoken in central-eastern India, is a member of the southern branch of the Munda family, which forms the western branch of the Austro-Asiatic phylum, stretching from central India to Vietnam. The present study provides the most extensive description of Kharia to date and covers all major areas of the grammar. Of particular interest in the variety of Kharia described here, is that there is no evidence for assuming the existence of parts-of-speech, such as noun, adjective and verb. Rather functions such as reference, modification and predication are expressed by one of two syntactic structures, referred to here as 'syntagmas'. The volume will be of equal interest to general linguists from the fields of typology, linguistic theory, areal linguistics, Munda linguistics as well as South Asianists in general.
Other form:	Print version: Peterson, John M. (John Michael). Grammar of Kharia. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004187207
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004187207.i-474

Table of Contents:

List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Symbols; Abbreviations of Sources; Chapter One Introduction: The Kharia Language; Chapter Two Phonology; Chapter Three Syntactic Atoms; Chapter Four Parts of Speech and the Lexicon; Chapter Five The Case-syntagma ("NPs"); Chapter Six The Tam/Person-syntagma ("Verbs"); Chapter Seven Syntax; Appendix Text: The Nine Totems; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Authors.