Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa)
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The volume Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa) is a comprehensive description of Duhumbi, the language spoken by the Duhumbi (Chugpa, Chug Monpa) people of Dirang circle West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Contents Preface Acknowledgements Tables Glosses, Conventions and Symbols Chapter 1. The Duhumbi and Their Language 1.1. Geographical Setting 1.2. Geopolitical Setting 1.3. Autonyms, Exonyms and Population 1.4. Origin and Settlement 1.5. Livelihood, Culture and Religion 1.6. Duhumbi Ngak 1.7. The Data and Corpus Chapter 2. Phonology and Orthography 2.1. Transcription Systems and Orthographies 2.2. Non-native and Marginal Phonemes and Allophones 2.3. The Vowel System 2.4. The Consonant System 2.5. Syllable Structure and Phonotactics 2.6. Prosodic Features of Duhumbi 2.7. Two-Way Contrast in Plosives and Affricates Chapter 3. Parts of Speech 3.1. Nominal versus Verbal Parts of Speech 3.2. Pronouns 3.3. Nouns 3.4. Proper Nouns 3.5. Adjectives 3.6. Demonstratives 3.7. Numerals 3.8. Postpositions 3.9. Adverbs 3.10. Expressives 3.11. Interrogatives 3.12. Verbal Parts of Speech 3.13. Other Parts of Speech Chapter 4. Lexical Aspects 4.1. Nouns 4.2. Proper Nouns 4.3. Adjectives 4.4. Adverbs 4.5. Expressives 4.6. Numerals 4.7. Lexical Registers 4.8. Complex Predicates 4.9. Particular Verbs 4.10. Interjections 4.11. The Borrowed Lexicon Chapter 5. Nominalisations 5.1. Pure Derivational Nominalisers 5.2. Nominaliser -ba NOM 5.3. Nominaliser -baʔ INF Chapter 6. The Noun Phrase 6.1. Constituent Order in Noun Phrases 6.2. Grammatical Relations and Case Markers 6.3. Other Nominal Suffixes 6.4. Intensity 6.5. Use of Adjectives 6.6. Use of Demonstratives 6.7. Use of the Numeral hin ‘one’ 6.8. Use of the Postposition naŋ- ‘in’ 6.9. Use of Interrogatives Chapter 7. Verbal Morphology 7.1. Imperfective -da IPFV 7.2. Past Tenses 7.3. Non-past Tenses 7.4. Summary of Verbal Morphology Chapter 8. Non-verbal Predicates 8.1. Verb and Copula-less Clauses 8.2. Copula beʔ COP.EX 8.3. Copula le COP.LE 8.4. Copula giʨʰa COP.EQ 8.5. Copula ɕi COP.AS 8.6. Copula in Possessive Relations 8.7. Copular Verb ʥu- ‘be’ 8.8. Negative Copular Verbs and Copula balaŋ 8.9. Limited Conjugational Flexibility of Copular Verbs Chapter 9. Serial Verb Constructions 9.1. Types of SVC 9.2. SVCs in Various Contexts 9.3. SVCs and Prosody 9.4. Modifying Verbs 9.5. Symmetrical SVCs 9.6. Asymmetrical SVCs 9.7. SVCs in a Historical-Comparative Perspective Chapter 10. Non-declarative Clause Types 10.1. Interrogatives 10.2. Question Markers 10.3. Formation of Questions 10.4. Question Sub-types 10.5. Moods Chapter 11. Complex Sentences 11.1. Imperfective Phrases and Clauses 11.2. Subordination with -ba NOM and -baʔ INF 11.3. Subordination with -tʰaŋ LCN 11.4. Other Cotemporal Subordinators 11.5. Conditional with -se COND 11.6. Copular Causal Subordination 11.7. Conjunctions 11.8. Modifying Suffixes and Clitics Chapter 12. Discourse Structure 12.1. Discourse Structuring 12.2. Discourse Particles 12.3. Topic, Focus and Emphasis Chapter 13. Texts 13.1. Duhumbi Text Genres 13.2. Metadata of Texts 13.3. Metadata of Speakers 13.4. Descriptions of All Texts 13.5. Zenodo DOIs of Texts 13.6. Elicitation Files 13.7. Text: NNK; CHUK260413A2A 13.8. Text LGT; CHUK300412J2 13.9. Text: LEL; CHUKx13A6 13.10. Text: DTPK; CHUK131014 Figures References Index
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