In A Grammar of Guiqiong, Jiāng Li describes the grammar of Guiqiong, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in Kāngding county, China. Guiqiong 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. The newly discovered features of Guiqiong 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...
In A Grammar of Guiqiong, Jiāng Li describes the grammar of Guiqiong, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in Kān...