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A Grammar of Prinmi: Based on the Central Dialect of Northwest Yunnan, China

A Grammar of Prinmi: Based on the Central Dialect of Northwest Yunnan, China

Ding, Picus Sizhi

Hardcover

ChineseDictionaries & EncyclopediasWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 900427782X
ISBN13: 9789004277823
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 6 2014
Pages: 22
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
A Grammar of Prinmi represents the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Pǔmǐ Nationality and the Zàng Nationality (in Mùlǐ, 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.

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