Structural Form and Utterance Context in Lhasa Tibetan: Grammar and Indexicality in a Non-Configurational Language by Belasco, Simon

Structural Form and Utterance Context in Lhasa Tibetan: Grammar and Indexicality in a Non-Configurational Language (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820420912)

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Structural Form and Utterance Context in Lhasa Tibetan: Grammar and Indexicality in a Non-Configurational Language by Belasco, Simon

Structural Form and Utterance Context in Lhasa Tibetan: Grammar and Indexicality in a Non-Configurational Language

$81.95
Structural Form and Utterance Context in Lhasa Tibetan: Grammar and Indexicality in a Non-Configurational Language by Belasco, Simon

Structural Form and Utterance Context in Lhasa Tibetan: Grammar and Indexicality in a Non-Configurational Language

$81.95
Format: Hardcover
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Structural Form and Utterance Context in Lhasa Tibetan is a comprehensive study of the major morphosyntactic features of Lhasa Tibetan, giving special emphasis to the role of indexical categories in grammatical description. The author examines such universal morphosyntactic phenomena as case marking, topicalization, clause structure, verbal aspect and mood. This volume also offers detailed treatments of phenomena that have classically resisted straight-forward grammatical analysis as a result of their inherent dependence on utterance context - phenomena such as fluid case marking, evidential categories, honorific register and verbal perspective marking.
This book will be a basic text for linguists interested in the interplay between grammar and discourse, a research tool for the study of morphosyntactic typology, a major contribution to the theory of indexical categories and a reference manual for all linguists working on Tibetan languages.

Author: Simon Belasco, Asif Agha
ISBN-10: 0820420913
ISBN-13: 9780820420912
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1994
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
By Simon Belasco
By Simon Belasco
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The Author: Asif Agha is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his A.B. degree from Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. He has taught previously as Lecturer in Tibetan at the University of Chicago and as Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Vassar College.

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