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 A Grammar of Kharia: A South Munda Language

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xxiv)   (241K)
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    • Contents
    • List Of Maps
    • Acknowledgements
    • Abbreviations And Symbols
    • Abbreviations Of Sources
  • Introduction: The Kharia Language (1-26)   (432K)
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    • 1.1 General Introduction
    • 1.2 Genetic Affiliations
    • 1.3 Previous Studies On The Kharia And What This Study Adds
    • 1.4 Some Terminological Issues
    • 1.5 Kharia Orthography And The System Of Transliteration Used Here
    • 1.6 The Structure Of The Study
  • Phonology (27-50)   (1M)
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    • 2.1 Vowel Inventory
    • 2.2 Consonants
    • 2.3 Syllable Structure
    • 2.4 Morphophonology
    • 2.5 The Phonological Word
    • 2.6 Sentence Prosody
  • Syntactic Atoms (51-70)   (262K)
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    • 3.1 Clitics As "Phrasal Affixes"
    • 3.2 Clitics In Kharia—An Overview Of Their Characteristics
    • 3.3 Affixes
  • Parts Of Speech And The Lexicon (71-134)   (480K)
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    • 4.1 Introduction And Methodology
    • 4.2 The "Precategoriality" Of Simple Contentive Morphemes
    • 4.3 Derived Forms
    • 4.4 "NPs" As Verbs? Syntactic Categories, Not Lexical Categories
    • 4.5 Parts Of Speech In Kharia: A Summary
    • 4.6 "Compounds" And "Noun Incorporation"
    • 4.7 "Echo-Words"
  • The Case-Syntagma ("NPs") (135-208)   (512K)
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    • 5.1 General Introduction
    • 5.2 Case
    • 5.3 Adpositions
    • 5.4 Number
    • 5.5 Inalienable Possession
    • 5.6 Proforms
    • 5.7 Interrogatives, Indefinities And Negative Indefinites
    • 5.8 Demonstratives
    • 5.9 Quantifiers And Classifiers
    • 5.10 Modification
  • The Tam/Person-Syntagma ("Verbs") (209-350)   (814K)
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    • 6.1 General Introduction
    • 6.2 Person / Number / Honorific Marking
    • 6.3 Types Of Semantic Bases In The Tam/Person-Syntagma
    • 6.4 Tam / Basic Voice Marking
    • 6.5 "V2s"—Markers Of The Passive / Reflexive And Aktionsart
    • 6.6 Partially Finite And Non-Finite Forms
    • 6.7 Negation
    • 6.8 Periphrastic Tam/Person-Syntagmas ("Verbs")
    • 6.9 Inference
  • Syntax (351-438)   (791K)
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    • 7.1 Grammatical Relations
    • 7.2 Interrogatives
    • 7.3 Qualitative Predication—"Nominal" And "Copular" Sentences
    • 7.4 Clause Coordination
    • 7.5 Subordination
    • 7.6 "Relative Clauses"—Propositional Attribution
    • 7.7 Information Structure—Topic, Focus And Constituent Order
  • The Nine Totems (439-452)   (222K)
  • Bibliography (453-460)   (200K)
  • General Index (461-472)   (195K)
  • Index Of Authors (473-474)   (132K)