KALASSHA GRAMMAR

Παρουσίαση

This is the first comprehensive grammar of Kalasha, an endangered language spoken by about 3.400 Kalasha (the most recent demographic research documented 3.254 Kalasha speakers (Mela-Athanasopoulou & Taleem Khan Bazik, 2011d) in the valleys of Chitral (Bumburet, Rumbur and Birir), Northwestern Pakistan.
I have drawn on eight years of intense work with the Kalash, to promote, record and publicize their language through my fieldwork research in their valleys (educational leaves April - July 2007 and August - September 2009) as well as through my various publications, showing, among other things, the Ancient Greek presence in their language and also through the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation (1st ICLDT-Ka), of which I was the president (7 - 9 November 2008, Aristotle University). [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
Acknowledgments
The author
Photos
List of abbreviations
PHONOLOGY
THE WRITING AND THE SOUND SYSTEM
SUPRASEGMENTAL FEATURES
MORPHOLOGY
THE ARTICLE
THE NOUN
COMPOUND NOUNS
THE ADJECTIVE
THE ADVERB
PRONOUNS AND DETERMINERS
NUMERALS
THE VERB SYSTEM
FINITE VERB FORMS
VERB CATEGORIES
TENSE USAGE
VOICE
CAUSATIVE VERBS
SYNTAX
THE SENTENCE
TYPES OF SENTENCES
MODALITY
CONDITIONAL SENTENCES
REPORTED SPEECH
RELATIVE CLAUSES
THE NOUN PHRASE
OTHER SYNTACTIC PHENOMENA
MORE SENTENTIAL COMPLEMENTS
COMPOUND VERBS
Bibliography
Appendices
Index