A Grammar of Udihe

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Acknowledgements Preface Abbreviations Table of contents Plates Map 1: The Udihe clans 1. Introduction 1.1. The Udihe language and its genetic affiliation 1.2. The Udihe people 1.3. Udihe dialects 1.4. Some remarks on Udihe history and ethnography 1.5. The effect of language contacts on Udihe 1.6. The status of the modern Udihe language 1.7. The study of Udihe Phonology 2. Segmental phonology 2.1. Vowels 2.2. Consonants 2.3. Phonological alternations 3. Phonotactics and prosody 3.1. Positional restrictions 3.2. Co-occurrence restrictions 3.3. Vowel harmony 3.4. Epenthesis 3.5. Morpheme structure 3.6. Prosodic structure Morphology 4. Noun inflectional morphology 4.1. Nominal inflection 4.2. Functions of nominal inflectional categories 4.3. Nominal mixed categories 5. Nominal derivation 5.1. Derivational suffixes 5.2. Zero-derivation 6. Adjectives 6.1. Inflection of simple adjectives 6.2. Inflection of compound adjectives 6.3. General properties of the adjective phrase 6.4. Adjectival derivation 7. Verbal morphology 7.1. Verbal stems 7.2. Personal inflections 7.3. Negative conjugation 7.4. Formation of the Indicative tense/aspect forms 7.5. Non-Indicative moods 7.6. Non-finite forms 7.7. Illustrative paradigms 7.8. Functions of the Indicative tense/aspect categories 7.9. Function of non-Indicative forms 7.10. Functions of the non-finite forms 7.11. Periphrastic tense/aspect/mood categories 8. Verbal derivation 8.1. Interclass derivation 8.2. Deverbal derivation 8.3. Verbal compounds 8.4. Zero-derivation 9. Pronouns 9.1. Personal pronouns 9.2. Reflexive pronouns 9.3. Reciprocal pronouns 9.4. Demonstrative pronouns 9.5. Interrogative pronouns 9.6. Indefinite pronouns 9.7. Other determiners 10. Adverbs and postpositions 10.1. Adverbs 10.2. Postpositions 11. Numerals and quantifiers 11.1. Numerals 11.2. Quantifiers 12. Particles and extra-clausal elements 12.1. Particles Syntax 13. Noun phrase 13.1. Possessive noun phrase 13.2. Adjectival modifier 13.4. Pronominal determiners within the noun phrase 13.5. Postpositional phrase as a modifier 13.6. Oblique-case noun phrase as a modifier 13.7. Nominative noun phrase 13.8. Adverbials within a noun phrase 13.9. Apposition 13.10. Word order in the noun phrase with several modifiers 14. Verbal valence 14.1. Null-argument pattern 14.2. One-argument verbs (A/NOM) 14.3. Two-argument verbs 14.4. Three-argument verbs 15. Grammatical relations 15.1. Subject 15.2. Direct object 15.3. Other arguments 15.4. Clausal adjuncts 16. Valence-changing operations 16.1. Voice constructions 16.2. Valence changes not driven by voice 17. Copular clauses 17.1. Copula verbs 17.2. Copular constructions 17.3. Nominal sentences 18. Complex sentences 18.1. Conjunction 18.2. Disjunction 18.3. Subordination 18.4. Direct speech 19. Relative clause 19.1. External strategy 19.2. Internal strategy 19.3. Discontinuous relative clauses 19.4. Copular relative clauses 19.5. Headless relative clauses 19.6. Depictives 20. Complement subordinate clause 20.1. Sentential subject 20.2. Sentential object 21. Adverbial clause 21.1. Infinitival adverbial clauses 21.2. Participial locational clauses 21.3. Temporal clauses 21.4. Purpose clauses 21.5. “Instead”-clauses 21.6. Causal clauses 21.7. Comparative clause 21.8. Conditional clause 21.9. Concessive clauses 22. Coreference 22.1. Pronominal anaphora 22.2. Coreferential deletion 22.3. Reflexivization 22.4. Reciprocalization 22.5. Switch reference 23. Questions and negation 23.1. Questions 23.2. Negation 24. Information structure and word order 24.1. Word order at a clause level 24.2. Information structure within the noun phrase 24.3. Information structure in copular constructions 24.4. Topicalization of other constituents 25. Texts 26. Thematic lexicon 26.1. Nominals 26.2. Verbs 26.3. List of ideophones References Index