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1 online resource |
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Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, 1877-4083 ; volume 4 |
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Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Maps, Figures and Tables ; Abbreviations and Symbols ; Chapter One The Andaman and the Great Andamanese ; Introduction; 1.1 Geography and Topography; 1.2 Population; 1.3 Present-Day Great Andaman and the Great Andamanese; 1.3.1 Great Andaman; 1.3.2 The Strait Island; 1.4 History of Language Studies; 1.4.1 Great Andamanese; 1.4.2 Study in Pre-Independent India; 1.4.3 Study in Post-Independent India; 1.5 Genealogical Classification; 1.6 Typological Differences; 1.7 The Last Decade; 1.8 A Sociolinguistic Sketch of the Great Andamanese |
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1.10.2 Major Life Forms and Ethno-Biological Classifications1.11 The Biological Universe of the Great Andamanese; 1.12 The Present Study; Chapter Two Phonetics and Phonology ; Introduction; 2.1 Vowels; 2.1.1 Phonemic Contrasts; 2.1.1.1 Front Vowels; 2.1.1.2 Back Vowels; 2.1.2 Length; 2.1.3 Phonotactics of Vowels; 2.1.4 Vowel Sequences/Clusters; 2.2 Semi-vowels/Glides ; 2.3 Consonants; 2.3.1 Phonemic Contrasts: Minimal and Sub-Minimal Pairs for Consonants ; 2.3.1.1 Nasals; 2.3.1.2 Oral Stops; 2.3.1.3 Fricatives; 2.3.1.4 Liquids; 2.3.2 Phonotactics of Consonants; 2.3.3 Medial Consonant Clusters |
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2.3.4 Initial Consonant Clusters2.4 Syllables; 2.4.1 Possible Syllable Structures; 2.4.2 Constraints; 2.4.3 Length of a Word; 2.5 Morphophonemics; 2.5.1 Gemination; 2.5.2 Degemination and Compensatory Lengthening; 2.5.3 Homorganicity; 2.5.4 Insertion of a Consonant; 2.5.5 Vowel Harmony; 2.5.6 Vowel Lowering; 2.5.7 Vowel Deletion; 2.5.8 Syllable Attraction; 2.5.9 Metathesis; 2.6 Acoustic Study of Problematic Sounds; Chapter Three Grammar Overview ; 3.1 The Structure; 3.1.1 General; 3.1.2 Typological Background; 3.1.3 Core Arguments; 3.2 Ambivalence of Verbs, Adjectives and Nouns |
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3.2.1 Noun Verb Ambivalence3.2.2 Adjectives as Verbs; 3.2.3 Adjectives as Adverbs; 3.2.4 Other Unusual Features; 3.3 Inalienability (ina), Body Division Classes and Grammaticalisation ; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 Anthropocentrism; 3.3.3 The Semantics of Inalienability; 3.3.4 Linguistic Manifestations of 'Inalienability'; 3.3.5 Body Class ¿arkers and Rther Pouns; 3.4 The Semantic Role of Body Division Classes; 3.5 Inalienability and its Representation in Verbs; 3.6 Inalienability and its Representation in Modifiers; 3.7 Process of Grammaticalisation |
| Summary |
A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is a pioneering piece of work by Anvita Abbi which introduces readers to a unique world of cognition of the people who are remnants of the first migration from Africa 70,000 years before present |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Andamanese language -- Grammar
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Andamanese language -- Etymology
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Ethnology -- India -- Andaman Islands (India)
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
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Andamanese language -- Grammar
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Ethnology
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Language and languages
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| SUBJECT |
Andaman Islands (India) -- Languages
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| Subject |
India -- Andaman Islands
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013018345 |
| ISBN |
1299816975 |
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9781299816978 |
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9789004246126 |
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9004246126 |
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