{"product_id":"a-textbook-in-classical-tibetan-9781032123561","title":"A Textbook in Classical Tibetan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Textbook in Classical Tibetan is the first comprehensive course book in the Classical Tibetan language written in English. The textbook describes the grammar of pre-16th-century Classical Tibetan works for beginners and students of intermediate level. It is intended to cover the most essential topics that can be mastered within two semesters of an academic class. Classical Tibetan is a written Middle Tibetan language that has been in use in Tibet from the 9th century. Until the early 20th century it served all purposes, from administrative, to medical, to religious. Nowadays Classical Tibetan remains an important part of religious identity and services for communities also outside of cultural Tibet, foremost in India, Nepal, and Bhutan, but also elsewhere, most importantly in Europe, North America and Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main body of the textbook consists of an introduction to the Tibetan script, eighteen lessons, and a reading section. Each lesson elucidates several grammatical \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructure of the textbook\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguage history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTibetic languages and their genetic affiliation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeographic distribution of Tibetic languages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharacterisation of Tibetic languages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTibetic languages in diachrony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten vs spoken Tibetic languages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClassical Tibetan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTibetan script\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe script\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSyllable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNumbers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePunctuation marks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord order in dictionaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTibetan transliteration of Indian scripts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTibetan as an agglutinative language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParticles. An overview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoun\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdjective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDemonstrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndefinite particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoun phrase\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrammatical case\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord order in a clause\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbsolutive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopula ཡིན་ and its negation མིན་\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNumber\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePersonal pronouns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopula ཡོད་ and its negation མེད་\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenitive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePossessive pronouns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinal particle འོ་\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTibetan verbs. An overview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntransitive verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerminative case\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTransitive verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTibetan as an ergative language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErgative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComitative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslation of clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNegation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImperative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProhibitive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNominal particles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eཔ་ ~ བ་ particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eཔ་ particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eཔོ་ ~ བོ་ particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eཔོ་ particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eམ་ particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eམོ་ particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eཀ་ ~ ཁ་ ~ ག་ particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eཀོ་ particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral remarks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConverbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoordinative particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNon-controllable transitive verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeech register\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdverbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerundial particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocus particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiminutive particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApposition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcessive particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostpositions and postpositional phrases\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePossessive particle ཅན་\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdjectives ལྡན་ and བཅས་\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNominalisation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelative clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCase converbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVerb + case particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVerb + པ་\/ བ་ + case particle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirect speech\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndirect speech\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterjections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompounds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModal verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCausative verb འཇུག་\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePossessive attributes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplex attributes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllipsis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOmission of coreferential arguments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImpersonal clause\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther pronouns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorphology of transitive and intransitive verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther converbial particles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLight verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncorporation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdioms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeasure words \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComparative and superlative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouble case particles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErgative in quotations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuxiliary particle ཀྱིན་\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnalytical verb constructions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcessive auxiliary རུང་\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePurposive particle རྒྱུ་\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClause chaining\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeterminers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReduplication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNumerals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 18\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImpact of Sanskrit on Classical Tibetan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetrics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReadings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading I: Householder Dbyig-pa-čan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading II: The descent of Tibetan people from a monkey and a rock-ogress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading III: The death of Mi-la Ras-pa’s father\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading IV: A Treasury of Aphoristic Jewels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslations of exercises and readings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExercises\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReadings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinguistic glossary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Writing instructions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Transliteration systems. 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