| A Grammar of Prinmi: Based on the Central Dialect of Northwest Yunnan, China Contributor(s): Ding, Picus Sizhi (Author) |
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ISBN: 900427782X ISBN-13: 9789004277823 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $200.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Spelling & Vocabulary - Foreign Language Study | Chinese - Reference | Dictionaries |
| Dewey: 495.17 |
| Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater H |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.65 lbs) 508 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Grammar of Prinmi represents the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Pǔmǐ Nationality and the Z ng Nationality (in M lǐ, Sichuan) in southwest China. Prinmi belongs to the Qiangic branch and is closely related to the extinct language of Tangut. Picus Ding examines in the grammar the phonology (both segmental and suprasegmental), morphology, syntax and information structure of Prinmi, with two sample texts and an English-Prinmi glossary provided in appendices. Some noteworthy features of Prinmi include a wealth of clitics (appearing as proclitic, enclitic, mesoclitic or endoclitic), a lexical tone system akin to Japanese, and a collection of existential verbs that discriminates concreteness, animacy, and location. |