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Verbal Semantics in a Tibeto-Burman Language

The Bodo Verb

by Prafulla Basumatary (Author)
Monographs XVI, 274 Pages

Summary

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive description of the verbal system of Bodo, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, particularly Assam. The description is primarily based on a 1.2-million-word Bodo corpus, both written and spoken, involving different genres.
This is the first extensive work solely devoted to the description of the Bodo verb. The book provides a thorough description of the Bodo verb that will be comprehensive enough to be of use to Tibeto-Burmanists, on the one hand, and to language typologists, on the other. Second, it addresses certain pedagogic issues relating to the teaching of the Bodo language in schools.
The book encompasses a description of verbal roots, formation of verbal stems, inflection of verbal stems, and distribution of various verb forms in different types of clauses, such as independent clauses, embedded clauses, and chained clauses. Finally, a pedagogic perspective is provided with reference to the morphosyntactic aspects of the Bodo verb.
This book was the winner of the 2016 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Linguistics.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1: Language and People
  • Chapter 2: Literature Review
  • Chapter 3: The Verb Root
  • Chapter 4: The Verb Stem
  • Chapter 5: Verbal Inflections
  • Chapter 6: Complex Verbal Constructions
  • Chapter 7: Clausal Constructions
  • Chapter 8: Pedagogy and the Bodo Verb
  • Chapter 9: Concluding Statement
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Series index

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Figures

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Tables

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Details

Pages
XVI, 274
ISBN (PDF)
9781787073401
ISBN (ePUB)
9781787073418
ISBN (MOBI)
9781787073425
ISBN (Softcover)
9781787073395
DOI
10.3726/b11643
Language
English
Publication date
2017 (August)
Keywords
morphosyntax pedagogy descriptive linguistics Bodo Tibeto-Burman languages typology
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2017. XVI, 274 pp., 50 tables, 5 fig.

Biographical notes

Prafulla Basumatary (Author)

Prafulla Basumatary is a linguist who was awarded his PhD in 2015 from Gauhati University, Assam, India. He won the University Grants Commission – Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship Award for his doctoral research during 2008–2013. He has carried out extensive fieldwork for the documentation and archiving of Bodo, of which he is a native speaker. Currently he is a guest faculty member in the Department of Linguistics, Gauhati University, with specializations in multilingual education, linguistic field methods, and training in linguistic software.

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