A Grammar of Bantawa : grammar, paradigm tables, glossary and texts of a Rai language of Eastern Nepal
Doornenbal, M.A.
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Doornenbal, M. A. (2009, November 3). A Grammar of Bantawa : grammar, paradigm tables, glossary and texts of a Rai language of Eastern Nepal. LOT dissertation series. LOT,
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, Utrecht. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/14326
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Index
accusative
agreement, 147, 197 derivation pattern, 235 adjectives, 291
adverbs, 297
intensifiers, 298 exclusion, 311 of manner, 299, 301 of time, 98, 304 reduplication, 302 agreement
embedded, 216 pars pro toto, 216 allative, 90
antipassive, 222, 244, 335 explicit, 225 implicit, 222 aspect, 262, 266
cursive, 266
perfect, 196, 272, 276 progressive, 268 backgrounding, 204 Bantawa, 5
benefactives, 284 case, 73
dative, 76 ergative, 74 genitive, 76 locatives, 83 causatives
lexical, 230 metma, 238, 281
morphological, 236, 281, 283 muma, 241
prefix s, 235 causativisation, 230 clause syntax, 209
bitransitive, 214 emotion verbs, 219 impersonal clauses, 217 intransitive, 213, 218 transitive, 214 clitics, 290
comitative, 91 comparative, 90, 296 complemented verbs, 280 compound verbs, 199, 248, 473
category insensitive, 265 category selective, 259 conjunctive, 278 morphology, 475 motionalisers, 260 ordering, 267 conative, 274 conditional, 327 conjugations, 129 conjunctions, 317 nominal, 318 consonants, 17
aspirated, 31 continuous, 269 converb
negative perfect, 194 simultaneous, 191 correlatives, 329 counting, 112 489
490 Index
definiteness, 78, 335 definitive, 276 deverbatives, 183 diminutive, 67 direct speech, 330 enclitics, 290
experience verbs, 217, 219, 286 experiential, 271
factitive, 204 genitive, 76
glottal stop, 26, 73, 130 ideophones, see paralexemes imperative, 180
imperfective, 267 infinitive
citation, 188 supine, see supine intensifiers, see adverbs interrogatives, 315 irrealis, 180, 315 Kiranti, 473
mechrithanatous, see mortative middle conjugation, 227, 243 mimetics, see paralexemes mirative, 204, 314
mood, 179 mortative, 275 narrative, 330 negation, 163
past tense, 163, 167, 177 Nepali
loans, 18 phonology, 47 verbal loans, 237 nominalisation, 183, 195
general, 78, 195 verb, 195 nouns, 57
compounding, 65 number hierarchy, 154
optative, 179
paralexemes, 25, 35, 299, 303 participles, 294
active, 184 passive, 186 purposive, 186 particles, 306
epistemic, 312 modal, 312 passive, 243 perfect, 272
perfect aspect, 196, 276 perfective, 266, 272 person hierarchy, 153 phonology, 17
possessive construction, 79 postpositions, 80
progressive, 160, 176, 268 pronouns, 93, 322, 335
interrogative, 103 possessive, 95 relative, 103 reciprocal, 245 reflexive, 245 reflexives, 172 relinquitive, 276 serial verbs, 248
slot morphology, 166, 253 spatial deixis, 94, 124, 262 supine, 190
syllable, 34 onset, 35 tone, 53, 139 topicaliser, 307
transitivity, 209, 211, 221, 227 valency
changing, 237, 280 verbs, 117
agreement morphology, 143 classes, 118
compound, see compound verbs conjugations, 129
experience, 219, 286
Index 491
non-finite, 183 of movement, 124 roots, 126 stems, 125 syntax, 121 to be, 118 types, 118
with complements, 238, 280, 285 vertical deixis, see spatial deixis vowels, 32, 44
/e/ vs. /a/, 33 diphthongs, 32 harmony, 54, 101 length, 36
