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Book SynopsisThe Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon by Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey is a comprehensive description of Kurux, a northern Dravidian tribal language with two million speakers. Isolated in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Eastern India, Kurux shows a unique mixture of archaic Dravidian traits and innovations induced by contact with neighboring Indo-Aryan and Munda languages, and has posed questions regarding language change and Dravidian subgrouping. Making use of first-hand materials from their fieldwork, Kobayashi and Tirkey analyze the complexities of the language in the grammar section. This book also contains transcribed and glossed texts, and a lexicon with more than 9,000 entries, and serves both as reference for linguists and learning resource for students.
Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction § 1 Typological Overview § 2 Profile of the Language § 3 Language Endangerment § 4 Writing Systems and Transcription § 5 Name of the Language § 6 Dialectal Variation § 7 Genetic Relationship § 8 Lexicon § 9 Convergence § 10 Previous Studies § 11 Fieldwork and Materials § 12 Organization of the Book § 13 Acknowledgment Grammar 2 Phonology § 14 Vowels § 15 Vowel Length § 16 Umlaut § 17 Consonants § 18 Geminates and Singletons § 19 Metathesis and Linearity § 20 Syllable § 21 Stress and Rhythm § 22 Intonation § 23 Morphophonology § 24 Sound Changes up to Proto-Kurux-Malto § 25 Phonological Alternations within Kurux § 26 Summary of Historical Phonology 3 Morphology § 27 Characteristics of Kurux Morphology § 28 Parts of Speech § 29 Nouns: Nominal Stems and Bases § 30 Nouns: Gender § 31 Nouns: Number § 32 Nouns: Cases § 33 Diminutive and Augmentative § 34 Compound Nouns and Adjectives § 35 Pronouns: Personal Pronouns § 36 Pronouns: Reflexives § 37 Pronouns: Possessives § 38 Pronouns: Demonstratives § 39 Pronouns: Interrogatives and Indefinites § 40 Pronouns: Cases of Personal and Reflexive Pronouns § 41 Pronouns: Cases of Demonstratives and Interrogatives § 42 Adpositions § 43 Agreement Suffix and Predicative Nominals § 44 Adjectives: Simple § 45 Adjectives in -taː, -iyaː, -madʰheː and -aːboː § 46 Adjectives: Suffixes Deriving Demonyms etc. § 47 Numerals and Classifiers § 48 Adverbs § 49 Preverbs § 50 Verbs § 51 Verbal Roots and Verbal Bases § 52 Past Stem and the Primary Verb Classes § 53 Irregular Verb Inflection § 54 Verb Inflection: Simple Tenses § 55 Complex Aspectual Forms: Perfect § 56 Complex Aspectual Forms: Progressive § 57 Complex Aspectual Forms: ciʔ-aː Benefactive § 58 Verb Inflection: Modal Forms § 59 Verb Inflection: Inter-Female Forms § 60 Copula and Existential Verbs § 61 Copular Clauses and Concord § 62 Derived Verbal Bases § 63 Frequentative Verbs § 64 Infinitives § 65 Inflection Reduction § 66 Perfect and Imperfect Participles § 67 Agentive Participle § 68 Adverbial Participles § 69 Converb § 70 Origin of the Kurux-Malto Past Inflection 4 Syntax and Pragmatics § 71 Word Order § 72 Coordinating Conjunctions § 73 Subordinating Conjunctions § 74 Complementizer § 75 Reflexives and Logophorics § 76 Relative Clauses § 77 The -madʰheː Construction and Adnominal PPs § 78 Conditional and Counterfactual § 79 Complex Predicates § 80 Voice and Argument Alternation § 81 Passive and Grammatical Relations § 82 Stative Passive Construction § 83 Use of the -aː Infinitive § 84 Use of the -naː Infinitive § 85 Non-nominative Subjects § 86 Impersonal Construction § 87 Topic and Focus § 88 Phrasal Clitics § 89 Clausal Clitics 5 Semantics § 90 Spatial Deixis § 91 Animacy, Number, Gender and Person § 92 Use of the Copular Verbs § 93 Possession § 94 Question § 95 Deictic Verbs § 96 Definiteness and Differential Object Marking § 97 Lexical Aspect § 98 Use of the Simple Tenses § 99 Use of the Aspectual Forms § 100 Modality § 101 Use of the Causative § 102 Function of the Passive Voice § 103 Volition or Control over the Action § 104 Negation § 105 Negative Polarity Items § 106 Politeness § 107 Use of Cases: Nominative § 108 Use of Cases: Accusative § 109 Use of Cases: Dative § 110 Use of Cases: Instrumental-Ablative § 111 Use of Cases: Genitive § 112 Use of Cases: Locative 6 Lexicon § 113 Characteristics of the Kurux Lexicon § 114 Inherited Etyma § 115 Loanwords and Toponyms § 116 Source of Loanwords § 117 Semantic Shift, Doublets and False Friends § 118 Kinship Terms § 119 Personal Names § 120 Echo Words and Onomatopoeia § 121 Interjections § 122 Euphemistic Expression § 123 Fauna and Flora Texts 7 Glossed Texts § 124 Home Visit (Dialogue) § 125 From Bablu Tirkey, Poor Ropna’s Dream (2017) § 126 Sone the Vulture § 127 Life Story of a Farmer § 128 The Bihar Famine (1966–1967) and my Father § 129 Letiya the Thief § 130 Building a Career § 131 King’s Seven Daughters and a Rakshas § 132 Story of Two Orphans and the Banyan Seed § 133 Seven Brothers and a Sister § 134 Story of a Man and a Tiger § 135 Myth of Fire and Rain § 136 Why Oraons Observe the Karam Festival Lexicon Bibliography Word Index General Index
