A Grammar of Qiang
Language: English
Published by Mouton de Gruyter Verlag, 2003
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With annotated texts and glossary. Qiang is a Tibeto-Burman language of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in northern Sichuan Province. This book, the first book-length description of the Qiang language in English, includes not only the reference grammar, but also an ethnological overview, several fully analyzed texts (mostly traditional stories) and an annotated glossary. XVII,445 Seiten mit drei Tafeln, Leinen (Mouton Grammar Library; Vol. 31/Mouton de Gruyter Verlag 2003). Statt EUR 189,95. Gewicht: 830 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe.
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- Title
- A Grammar of Qiang
- Author
- La Polla, Randy J./Chenglong Huang
- Publisher
- Mouton de Gruyter Verlag
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 311017829X
- ISBN 13
- 9783110178296
- Item weight
- 830 grams
- Series
- Book 5 of 85: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]
- Seller catalogs
- Sprachwissenschaft, Tibet, Weitere Philologien
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 is complex, with a paradigm of eight direction marking verbal prefixes, and two paradigms for person marking, one for actor, one for non-actor, and a variety of other verbal prefixes and suffixes, as well as definite and number marking on nouns. Noun phrases take classifiers and relational pospositions as well.
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About the Author
Randy LaPolla is Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong.
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