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A Grammar of Xong / Adam Sposato.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 84Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XX, 662 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110587364
  • 9783110764932
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 495.9725 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of glossing abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Orthographies -- 5 Nouns -- 6 Classifiers and numerals -- 7 Deictic forms -- 8 Complex nominal constructions -- 9 Clauses -- 10 Verbs -- 11 Expressive forms -- 12 Multiverbal constructions -- Text 1 Oub Meinl Yaos Geud -- Text 2 Tooth conversation -- References -- Index
Summary: Despite the fact that Miao-Yao (or Hmong-Mien) is one of the major language families of East and Southeast Asia, this work is only the second full-length descriptive grammar of any Miao-Yao language published in English. It focuses on Xong, a language belonging to the Miao branch of the family. Xong has approximately 900,000 speakers, the vast majority lives in Hunan and Guizhou Provinces in South-Central China. In particular, this description concentrates on several fully mutually intelligible Xong varieties spoken in Fenghuang County, located in the Hunan Province. In producing this work, the author primarily relies on the fieldwork data he collected over a period of ten months in Fenghuang County. He also made use of many of the previously published Chinese-language descriptions of Xong. The results are of use to scholars with an interest in the Miao-Yao family in particular or in the languages of East and Southeast Asia more in general.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of glossing abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Orthographies -- 5 Nouns -- 6 Classifiers and numerals -- 7 Deictic forms -- 8 Complex nominal constructions -- 9 Clauses -- 10 Verbs -- 11 Expressive forms -- 12 Multiverbal constructions -- Text 1 Oub Meinl Yaos Geud -- Text 2 Tooth conversation -- References -- Index

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Despite the fact that Miao-Yao (or Hmong-Mien) is one of the major language families of East and Southeast Asia, this work is only the second full-length descriptive grammar of any Miao-Yao language published in English. It focuses on Xong, a language belonging to the Miao branch of the family. Xong has approximately 900,000 speakers, the vast majority lives in Hunan and Guizhou Provinces in South-Central China. In particular, this description concentrates on several fully mutually intelligible Xong varieties spoken in Fenghuang County, located in the Hunan Province. In producing this work, the author primarily relies on the fieldwork data he collected over a period of ten months in Fenghuang County. He also made use of many of the previously published Chinese-language descriptions of Xong. The results are of use to scholars with an interest in the Miao-Yao family in particular or in the languages of East and Southeast Asia more in general.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)

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