The Grammar of LahuA polar bear and a brown bear help camouflage each other. |
Contents
List of Figures | xxi |
Index of Symbols and Abbreviations | xxviii |
Introduction | xxxix |
Preface to Second Printing | liii |
Sentencetypes and formclasses | 39 |
The nounphrase | 47 |
343 | 73 |
38 | 80 |
Chapter IV | 192 |
V | 359 |
Capitulum | 396 |
Chapter V | 402 |
5 | 416 |
Chapter VI | 435 |
Capitulum VIa Colloquial perturbations of normal syntax | 504 |
Partial ellipsis of an understood final clause | 512 |
quantified nuclei | 104 |
53 | 112 |
612 | 121 |
632 | 132 |
644 | 139 |
73 | 145 |
88 | 167 |
relationship among še šo ò 343 | 588 |
| 612 | |
| 645 | |
Bibliography | 667 |
Addenda and Corrigenda | 675 |
Additional Symbols and Abbreviations | 688 |
Common terms and phrases
a-cí a-ké adverbial autonomous noun bound morphemes chê Clf's compounds concatenations constituency dàî dê-dê deleted Elab Elab's expressions extentive genitival genitive construction grammar hế homophonous khɛ khô Lahu láy lề loanwords mâ hê meaning modifying morpheme nà-hi nominal non-final NP's numeral ŋà occur pa-to phê phemes phô possessed head possessor nucleus preceding prefix prefixable morphemes qha-gà qhà-qhe qhe-lê qhô qôi quantified reduplicated relative clause semantic sentence sequence Shan spatial structure subordinate syllables syntactic tê gâ tê mà thà Thai thô tone univ unrestricted particles V₁ ve yò ve-clauses verb verbal versatile verbs vowel VP's