EvenkiEvenki is one of nine Tungusic languages spoken in Siberia and Northern China. This book gives the first ever complete description of all this language's linguistic domain. Evenki is remarkable both for the vast area where it is spoken - from Western Siberia through the Amur region to the shores of the Arctic Ocean to Northern China - and for its immense number of dialects and sub-dialects. |
Contents
SYNTAX | 1 |
MORPHOLOGY | 141 |
PHONOLOGY | 309 |
IDEOPHONES AND INTERJECTIONS | 324 |
LEXICON | 326 |
References | 341 |
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Common terms and phrases
a:chin accd action adjectives adverbial Adverbial clauses affixes anaphoric Asatkan aspect beje Bejetken Bejumimni bi-che-n bi-si-n clitics comitative consonants constituent constructions converbal forms coordinated copula coreferential d'AngA d'ur dative definite accusative denoting dialects direct object element enclitics Etyrken Evenki example finite verb finite verb forms forms in chA function girl habitual head noun hunter I-dat imperative imperfective aspect impersonal passive indefinite inflections interrogative intonation intr intransitive intransitive verbs killed main verb marked me:nmi min-du modal modifiers mood morpheme negative auxiliary ngnA nominal non-finite noun phrases Nungan Nungartyn old.man oneself oron paradigm participial forms participle particles past personal possession markers personal pronouns plural position possessive pronouns postpositional predicate prol question-word rAki reciprocal pronouns reflexive pronouns reindeer reindeer pl relative clauses river s)he semantic sentence singular subordinate clauses suffix syntactic tadu taduk tense forms tyma:tne verb stem verbal vowel woman