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A Grammar of Qiang
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This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province. It belongs to the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman (one of the two major branches of Sino-Tibetan). The dialect presented in the book is the Northern Qiang variety spoken in Ronghong Village, Yadu Township, Chibusu District, Mao County. This book, the first book-length description of the Qiang language in English, is the result of many years of work on the language, and is as typologically comprehensive as possible. It includes not only the reference grammar, but also an ethnological overview, several fully analyzed texts (mostly traditional stories), and an annotated glossary. The language is verb final, agglutinative (prefixing and suffixing), and has both head-marking and dependent marking morphology. The phonology of Qiang is quite complex, with 39 consonants at seven points of articulation, plus complex consonant clusters, both in initial and final position, as well as vowel harmony, vowel length distinctions, and a set of retroflexed vowels. The grammar also
Walter de Gruyter, Inc.; December 2003
464 pages; ISBN 9783110197273
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464 pages; ISBN 9783110197273
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Subject categories
- Academic > Languages and Linguistics > Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania > Sino-Tibetan languages > Tibeto-Burman languages > Assam and Burma
- Academic > Languages and Linguistics > Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania > Ural-Altaic languages > Mongolian languages
- Foreign Language Books > Chinese
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Grammar
- Foreign Language Study
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9783110197273
9783110178296
3110197278
