A Grammar of Atong

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-25892-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 660 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1179 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages

Atong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India and Bangladesh. Seino van Breugel provides a deep and thorough coverage and analysis of all major areas of the grammar, which makes this book of great interest and value to general linguists and typologists as well as area specialists. Alongside an Atong-English dictionary and five fully-glossed Atong texts recorded during extensive fieldwork, this work also provides a sizable ethnolinguistic introduction to the speakers and their culture. Of particular interest is the pragmatic approach taken for the grammatical analysis. Whereas the form of an utterance provides some clue as to its possible meaning, inference is always needed to arrive at the most relevant interpretation within the context in which the utterance occurs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Breugel, Seino van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Seino van Breugel, Ph.D. (2009, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) has undertaken more than a year of fieldwork on the Atong language resulting in articles and a bundle of texts in the orthography he designed for the language.