Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 5 A Grammar of Lepcha (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region: Brills Tibetan Studuies Library)

CONTENTS......Page 6
EDITORIAL FOREWORD......Page 8
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 10
ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 16
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION......Page 18
2.1 Vowels......Page 34
2.2 Consonants......Page 38
2.3 Syllables......Page 48
2.4 Native Lepcha orthography......Page 49
2.5 Romanisation and spelling......Page 55
3.1 Derivational affixes......Page 62
3.2 Gender-specific endings......Page 64
3.3 Compounding......Page 66
3.5 Causative verbs......Page 67
CHAPTER FOUR NOMINAL MORPHOLOGY......Page 70
4.1 Number......Page 71
4.2 The definite and indefinite article......Page 77
4.3.1 Personal pronouns......Page 83
4.3.2 Demonstrative pronouns......Page 85
4.3.3 Interrogative and relative pronouns......Page 89
4.3.4 Indefinite pronouns......Page 91
4.4 The ablative suffix......Page 94
4.5 The lative suffix......Page 96
4.6 The genitive and comitative suffixes......Page 99
4.7 The locative suffix......Page 104
4.8 The dative suffix......Page 106
4.9 Adjectives......Page 109
4.10 Comparative and superlative constructions......Page 110
4.11 Numerals......Page 111
4.12 Telling time......Page 116
5.1 Verb stems......Page 120
5.2 Permission, ability, opportunity, exigency......Page 123
5.3 Verbs ‘to be’......Page 127
5.4 Negation......Page 129
5.5 Gerund and the participle......Page 130
5.6 Infinitive......Page 132
5.7 Aorist......Page 134
5.8 Progressive tense......Page 136
5.9 Non-preterite tense......Page 137
5.10 The factitive marker with verbs......Page 138
5.11.1 The perfect auxiliary......Page 139
5.11.2 The resultative auxiliary......Page 140
5.11.3 The exhaustive auxiliary......Page 141
5.12 The locative suffix with verbs......Page 142
5.13 The ablative suffix with verbs......Page 143
6.1 The request particle......Page 148
6.3 The dubitative particle......Page 149
6.5 The inferential particle......Page 150
6.6 The certainty particle......Page 152
6.7 The discovery particle......Page 153
6.8 The reported speech particles......Page 154
6.9 Coordination......Page 155
6.10 Subordination......Page 158
6.11 The factitive marker......Page 160
TEXT ONE THE MOUNTAIN DEVIL......Page 162
TEXT TWO THE STORY OF THE JACKAL......Page 182
TEXT THREE THE GREAT KING GYEBÚ......Page 186
TEXT FOUR TWO LEPCHA GIRLS......Page 202
TEXT FIVE THE LEGENDARY MÂNSALÓNG......Page 212
TEXT SIX ZÓNGGÚ......Page 224
GLOSSARY......Page 232
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 264
INDEX......Page 270