A Grammar of Qiang: With Annotated Texts and Glossary

ISBN-13: 9783110178296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 462 str.

Randy J. Lapolla; Chenglong Huang

Opis

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. The language is verb final, and agglutinative (prefixing and suffixing), with a very complex phonological system and both head-marking and dependent marking morphology. It will be of use to typologists, comparativists, Sino-Tibetanists, anthropologists, and linguists in general.

Recenzje

"Like any superbly written descriptive grammar, this book will be of great value to typologist and linguist in general, but in particular to Sino-Tibetanists and anyone interested in Qiang language or culture. It is certain to remain the standard reference on this language for many years to come."Edward J. Vajda in: he Linguistlist

O autorze

Randy LaPolla is Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong.