Structural Form and Utterance Context in Lhasa Tibetan: Grammar and Indexicality in a Non-Configurational Language (Monographs in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, Band 2) - Hardcover

Agha, Asif

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820420913 ISBN 13: 9780820420912

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Structural Form and Utterance Context in Lhasa Tibetan is a comprehensive study of the major morphosyntactic features of Lhasa Tibetan, giving special emphasis to the role of indexical categories in grammatical description. The author examines such universal morphosyntactic phenomena as case marking, topicalization, clause structure, verbal aspect and mood. This volume also offers detailed treatments of phenomena that have classically resisted straight-forward grammatical analysis as a result of their inherent dependence on utterance context - phenomena such as fluid case marking, evidential categories, honorific register and verbal perspective marking.
This book will be a basic text for linguists interested in the interplay between grammar and discourse, a research tool for the study of morphosyntactic typology, a major contribution to the theory of indexical categories and a reference manual for all linguists working on Tibetan languages.

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The Author: Asif Agha is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his A.B. degree from Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. He has taught previously as Lecturer in Tibetan at the University of Chicago and as Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Vassar College.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0820420913
• ISBN 13: 9780820420912
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270
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