A Grammar of Kam Revealed in Its Narrative Discourse
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Beschreibung
The Kam language of China possesses fifteen tones – more than any other language. Yet it has long been neglected as an area of research, especially from the perspective of discourse analysis. This study initiates the exploration of the interface between grammar and discourse by examining various aspects of Kam narrative discourse, and using a functional approach to reveal its structural properties. It also introduces the mechanism for phonological and syntactic variations, as well as classifier variants and sentence-final particles (SFPs) in discourse and word order variations. Finally, it discusses the influence of social setting on narrative structure and offers the most up-to-date ethnological and social information about the community.
The Kam language of China possesses fifteen tones – more than any other language. Yet it has long been neglected as an area of research, especially from the perspective of discourse analysis. This study initiates the exploration of the interface between grammar and discourse by examining various aspects of Kam narrative discourse, and using a functional approach to reveal its structural properties. It also introduces the mechanism for phonological and syntactic variations, as well as classifier variants and sentence-final particles (SFPs) in discourse and word order variations. Finally, it discusses the influence of social setting on narrative structure and offers the most up-to-date ethnological and social information about the community.
The first grammar book in English, written by a Kam native with a PhD in linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington Based entirely on first-hand data collected through field work and includes fully aligned corpora in IPA, word-to-word translation,word-form-marking, and free translation Presents pioneering efforts in examining the interface between phonology, word and phrase, syntax and discourse in the non-Chinese languages of China Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Tongyin Yang
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Kam Language Kam Culture Dong Language Syntactic Structure Discourse Analysis Sentence-final Particle Functional Approach