Stock ID #175928 A Grammar of Bjokapakha. SELIN GROLLMANN.

A Grammar of Bjokapakha.

Leiden. Brill. 2020. Stock ID #175928

Coloured map and a few colour photographic illustrations. xvi + 514pp, glossary. Unread and as new . A very good copy. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library: Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Volume 24. 24 x 16cm.

"Grollmann constitutes the first description of Bjokapakha, an endangered language spoken in central Bhutan belonging to the Tshangla branch of Trans-Himalayan.

This grammar comprises a description of the phonology, lexicon, nominal morphology, predicate structures and syntax. In addition to the descriptive parts, this book encompasses a historical-comparative account of Bjokapakha.

The introductory chapter provides a comparison with the standard variety of Tshangla and corroborates the internal diversity of the Tshangla branch. The present-day structure of Bjokapakha verbal morphology is illuminated by means of an internal reconstruction[...]" (Publisher's blurb).

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