| Description |
1 online resource (526 pages) |
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Routledge Comprehensive Grammars |
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Routledge comprehensive grammars
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| Contents |
Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Abbreviations ; Acknowledgments ; 1 Introduction ; 1.1 Historical and social context ; 1.2 Myanmar and Burma: Literary and Colloquial Burmese ; 1.3 Burmese today ; 1.3.1 The language and its speakers |
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1.3.2 Burmese globalized: Loanwords, code mixing, and slang 1.4 Structure of Burmese: An overview ; 1.4.1 Sounds ; 1.4.2 Grammatical features ; 1.4.3 Role of context: Linguistic and extralinguistic ; 1.5 About this grammar ; 2 Sound system and script ; 2.1 Sound system |
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2.1.1 Consonants Plain consonants ; Consonant clusters ; 2.1.2 Vowels ; Plain vowels ; Vowels in closed syllables ; 2.1.3 Tones, voice quality, and prosody ; Tones ; Stress and prosody ; 2.1.4 Syllable structure ; 2.1.5 Sandhi ; Voicing ; Assimilation |
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2.1.6 Regional and sociolectal variants 2.2 Script ; 2.2.1 Consonants ; 2.2.2 Ligatures -- initial and medial ; 2.2.3 Vowels -- free and bound ; 2.2.4 Rhymes ; Vowels and final consonants ; Representation of tones ; 2.2.5 Special symbols ; 2.2.6 Numerals |
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2.2.7 Spacing and punctuation 2.2.8 Finding words in dictionaries and spelling words ; Alphabetical order ; Spelling out words ; 2.2.9 Chat script ; 2.2.10 Other methods of transcription ; 3 Parts of speech ; 3.1 Nominals ; 3.1.1 Nouns ; 3.1.2 Pronouns ; 3.1.3 Measure words |
| Notes |
3.1.4 Classifiers |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Burmese language.
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Burmese language
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hnin Tun, San San
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| ISBN |
9781317309307 |
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1317309308 |
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