A Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa (2 Vols.)

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18489-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5/11, 1638 Seiten, 2 vols., Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 2903 g

Reihe: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region

Dr. Anton Lustig’s Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa is a thorough and unique documentation of this main language of the Jingpo minority in southwest China. Volume I clarifies the precise meanings of numerous grammatical and lexical categories, in a holistic and all-encompassing but also vivid way, offering real insight into the conceptual universe of this typologically highly interesting tonal language, with suprasegmental traits. Volume II contains a dictionary, stories and songs. This work is also a historical monument for and tribute to this endangered language.
With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).

Zielgruppe

Anyone interested in the Zaiwa/Jingpo culture, specialists in Tibeto-Burman languages, language typologists and all other linguists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lustig, Anton

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Lustig, Anton
Anton Lustig (b. 1964, Netherlands) has spent about half his life in China. After finishing this book, he is still working for the benefit of the Zaiwa/Jingpo people, as a painter, composer, educator, ethnographer and leader of Prop Roots, a program on education, ethno-linguistics and intercultural exchange.