{"product_id":"a-grammar-of-nganasan-9789004382756","title":"A Grammar of Nganasan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith this descriptive grammar of Nganasan Beáta Wagner-Nagy presents a comprehensive description of the highly endangered Samoyedic language, spoken only by a small number of individuals on Siberia’s Taimyr Peninsula. Based on corpus data from the Nganasan Spoken Language Corpus as well as field work the grammar follows a traditional structure. Contents range from a description of phonetic features and phonological processes over word classes, morphological features to syntactic and semantic properties. The grammar highlights morphophonological alternations as well as the pragmatic organization of Nganasan. A discussion of the core vocabulary completes the account in addition to two sample texts.   The grammar reflects significant typological aspects thus serving as a reasonable basis for further comparison in Uralic studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Preface Abbreviations and Symbols Tables, Figures and Maps   1 Introduction  1 The People  2 The Language  3 Language Data   2 Phonetics and Phonology  1 Consonants  2 Vowels  3 Possible Combinations of Consonants and Vowels  4 Syllable Structure  5 Syllabification  6 Prosodic Characteristics  7 Morphophonological Rules   3 Word Classes  1 Nouns  2 Adjectives  3 Verbs  4 Pronominal Items  5 Adverbs  6 Postposition  7 Numerals and Quantifiers  8 Conjunctions und Particles  9 Interjections and Onomatopoetic Words   4 Nominal Inflection  1 Stems and Their Formation  2 Number and Its Usage  3 Case and Its Functions  4 Possessive Inflection  5 Destinative   5 Verbal Inflection  1 Conjugation Types and Agreement  2 Aspect  3 Tense  4 Mood  5 Stems  6 Aspect  7 Conjugations Types  8 Tense  9 Mood and Modality  10 Non-finite Verb Forms   6 Evidentiality  1 Inferred Evidentiality  2 Reported Evidentiality  3 Sensory Evidentiality   7 Verbal Valence and Valence-Changing Operations  1 Verbal Valence  2 Valence-Changing Operations   8 The Structure of the Noun Phrase  1 Attributive Modifiers  2 Determined Noun Phrase (DP)  3 Quantified Noun Phrase  4 Noun Phrase as Modifier  5 Constituent Order in NPs  6 Coordination within NP and Comitative Constructions  7 Definiteness within the NP   9 Types of Predicate  1 Verbal Predication  2 Non-verbal Predicate  3 Existential and Locative Clauses  4 Possessive Clauses   10 Simple Sentences  1 Clause Participant and Grammatical Relations in Sentences  2 Basic Sentence Types  3 Constituent Order  4 Comparative Constructions   11 Ditransitive Constructions  1 Coding of Recipient and Addressee  2 Coding the Beneficiary  3 Coding the Theme   12 Negation  1 Sentence Negation  2 Constituent Negation  3 Other Negative Constructions   13 Clause Combining  1 Coordination  2 Complementation  3 Adverbial Clauses  4 Relative Clauses   14 Discourse Organization  1 Word Order and Information Structuring  2 Reference Tracking  3 Direct and Indirect Speech   15 Lexicon  1 Noun Class Semantics and Sub-classification  2 Adjective Class Semantics and Sub-classification  3 Verb Class Semantics and Sub-classification  4 Loanwords   16 Word Formation  1 Compounding  2 Conversion  3 Broadening and Narrowing of Meaning  4 Word Creation  5 Stem Vowel Alternation  6 Derivation  7 Clitic-Like Morphemes   17 Text Samples  1 My Life  2 Nenets Man and the Giant   References Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210760872279,"sku":"9789004382756","price":133.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-grammar-of-nganasan-9789004382756","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}