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Authors: Igor Nedjalkov
ISBN-13: 9780415026406, ISBN-10: 0415026407
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Igor Nedjalkov

Book Synopsis

Evenki 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.

	Acknowledgements
	Alphabetical symbols
	Abbreviations
	Introduction
	Representation of Evenki examples
1	Syntax
1.1	General questions
1.2	Structural questions
1.3	Coordination
1.4	Negation
1.5	Anaphora
1.6	Reflexives
1.7	Reciprocals
1.8	Comparison
1.9	Equatives
1.10	Possession
1.11	Emphasis
1.12	Topic
1.13	Heavy shift
1.14	Other movement processes
1.15	Minor sentence-types
1.16	Operational definitions for word-classes
2	Morphology
2.1	Inflection
2.2	Derivational morphology
3	Phonology
3.1	Phonological units (segmental)
3.2	Phonotactics
3.3	Suprasegmentals
3.4	Morphophonology (segmental)
3.5	Morphophonology (suprasegmental)
4	Ideophones and Interjections
4.1	Ideophones
4.2	Interjections
5	Lexicon
5.1	Structured semantic fields
5.2	Basic vocabulary
	References
	Index