Plaisier, Heleen

A grammar of Lepcha / Heleen Plaisier - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. - xiii, 254 p. ill., map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252) and index.

CHAPTER TWO: FHONOLOGY AND ORTHOGRAPHY
2.1 Vowels
2.2 Consonants
2.3 Syllables....
2.4 Native Lepcha orthography,
2.5 Romanisation and spelling.,
CHAPTER THREE: PARTS OF SPEECH
3.1 Derivational affixes
3.2 Gender-specific endings..
3.3 Compounding...
3.4 Reduplication...
3.5 Causative verbs
CHAPTER FOUR: NOMINAL MORPHOLOGY..
4.1 Number.
4.2 The definite and indefinite article.
4.3 Pronouns...
4.3.1 Personal pronouns.,
4.3.2 Demonstrative pronouns.
4.3.3 Interrogative and relative pronouns.
4.3.4 Indefinite pronouns
4.4 The ablative suffix.
4.5 The lative suffix..
4.6 The genitive and comitative suffixes..
4.7 The locative suffix
4.8 The dative suffix..,
4.9 Adjectives...
4.10 Comparative and superlative constructions .
4.11 Numerals...,
4.12 Telling time
CHAPTER nVE: VERBAL MORPHOLOGY
5.1 Verb stems..
5.2 Permission, ability, opportunity, exigency
5.3 Verbs 'to be\.
5.4 Negation...
5.5 Gerund and the participle.
5.6 Infinitive.
5.7 Aorist
5.8 Progressive tense..
5.9 Non-preterite tense.
5.10 The factitive marker with verbs.
5.11 Aktionsart auxiliaries .
5.11.1 The perfect auxiliary
5.11.2 The resultative auxiliary..
5.11.3 The exhaustive auxiliary.
5.11.4 The completive auxiliary
5.12 The locative suffix with verbs
5.13 The ablative suffix with verbs
CHAPTER SIX: CLAUSE-HNAL PARTICLES, COORDINATION AND
SUBORDINATION
6.1 The request particle
6.2 The authorative particle.
6.3 The dubitative particle...
6.4 The possibility particle..
6.5 The inferential particle..
6.6 The certainty particle
6.7 The discovery particle.
6.8 The reported speech particles
6.9 Coordination...
6.10 Subordination....
6.11 The factitive marker.

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