Verbal Semantics in a Tibeto-Burman Language
The Bodo Verb
Monographs
XVI,
274 Pages
Series:
Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, Volume 42
Summary
The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive description of the verbal system of Bodo, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, particularly Assam. The description is primarily based on a 1.2-million-word Bodo corpus, both written and spoken, involving different genres.
This is the first extensive work solely devoted to the description of the Bodo verb. The book provides a thorough description of the Bodo verb that will be comprehensive enough to be of use to Tibeto-Burmanists, on the one hand, and to language typologists, on the other. Second, it addresses certain pedagogic issues relating to the teaching of the Bodo language in schools.
The book encompasses a description of verbal roots, formation of verbal stems, inflection of verbal stems, and distribution of various verb forms in different types of clauses, such as independent clauses, embedded clauses, and chained clauses. Finally, a pedagogic perspective is provided with reference to the morphosyntactic aspects of the Bodo verb.
This book was the winner of the 2016 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Linguistics.
This is the first extensive work solely devoted to the description of the Bodo verb. The book provides a thorough description of the Bodo verb that will be comprehensive enough to be of use to Tibeto-Burmanists, on the one hand, and to language typologists, on the other. Second, it addresses certain pedagogic issues relating to the teaching of the Bodo language in schools.
The book encompasses a description of verbal roots, formation of verbal stems, inflection of verbal stems, and distribution of various verb forms in different types of clauses, such as independent clauses, embedded clauses, and chained clauses. Finally, a pedagogic perspective is provided with reference to the morphosyntactic aspects of the Bodo verb.
This book was the winner of the 2016 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Linguistics.
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Language and People
- Chapter 2: Literature Review
- Chapter 3: The Verb Root
- Chapter 4: The Verb Stem
- Chapter 5: Verbal Inflections
- Chapter 6: Complex Verbal Constructions
- Chapter 7: Clausal Constructions
- Chapter 8: Pedagogy and the Bodo Verb
- Chapter 9: Concluding Statement
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series index
Details
- Pages
- XVI, 274
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781787073401
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781787073418
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781787073425
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781787073395
- DOI
- 10.3726/b11643
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2017 (August)
- Keywords
- morphosyntax pedagogy descriptive linguistics Bodo Tibeto-Burman languages typology
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2017. XVI, 274 pp., 50 tables, 5 fig.
