| A Grammar of Kharia: A South Munda Language Contributor(s): Peterson, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004187200 ISBN-13: 9789004187207 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $239.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Southeast Asian Languages (see Also Vietnamese) - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Reference |
| Dewey: 495.95 |
| LCCN: 2010043092 |
| Series: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages |
| Physical Information: 500 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |