A grammar of Guìqióng
Subtitle: a language of Sichuan
By: by Jiāng Lì
Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region -- volume 5/15
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9789004292093; 9789004293045
Subjects: Guiqiong language; Grammar
Description: Jiang Lì describes the grammar of Guìqióng, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in K?ngdìng county, China. Guìqióng has a lot to offer in its phonology, verbal and nominal morphology, syntax and glossary, distinguishing itself from the neighbouring Tibetan, Chinese, Qiangic and Loloish languages. 0The newly discovered features of Guìqióng include breathy vs. modal voice, indefinite number, ablative, ergative, instrumental, dative and genitive case markers, topic and emphatic markers, the diminutive suffixes, the pronominal and deictic systems, demonstratives and numerals, a rich store of differentiated copular verbs expressing equationality, inchoative, animacy vs. inanimacy, dependent existence and negation, verbal affixes indicating directions, present tense of experienced perceptions, gnomic tense, perfective vs. imperfective aspect, modality and evidentiality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-447) and index.