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Contents
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2 Phonology and Phonetics | 49 |
22 Consonant phonemes and their allophones | 52 |
23 Hiatus and the syllable | 57 |
73 Transitivity and impersonal constructions | 227 |
8 Perfect Tenses | 237 |
82 Negated perfect and pluperfect | 240 |
83 The negative perfect gerund | 243 |
9 Other Verbal Constructions | 245 |
92 The present gerund | 248 |
93 Imperative | 250 |
94 The adhortative | 257 |
24 The orthography | 59 |
3 Nominal Morphology | 61 |
32 Case | 62 |
33 Compounding | 79 |
34 Pronouns | 80 |
35 Numerals | 87 |
36 Adjectives | 89 |
4 Conjugations of the Verb | 91 |
42 Intransitive conjugations | 95 |
43 Transitive conjugations | 99 |
44 Apophony and homophony | 116 |
5 Morphology of Simplicia | 119 |
51 Prefixes | 122 |
52 Suffixes | 125 |
53 Overview of affixal slots and their fillers | 150 |
54 Verbs to be | 168 |
6 Aspect and Aspectivizers | 177 |
62 The nominalizer suffix | 190 |
63 Aspectivizers and Aktionsarten | 197 |
7 Causatives and Transitivity | 215 |
72 The productive causativizer mitni | 224 |
95 The optative | 258 |
96 Clausefinal mood particles conjunctions and reported speech | 260 |
97 The infinitive | 267 |
98 The supine | 271 |
99 The active participle | 272 |
910 The impersonal first plural inclusive | 275 |
Appendices | 277 |
The original family of Man pitted against the Hāyu or cannibals | 288 |
The myth of Ηοiplɨ the first son of KhopsɨLɨkpa and Naighɨlem | 319 |
Conversation 1 | 322 |
Conversation 2 | 324 |
Conversation 3 | 325 |
Formulaic farewell | 326 |
II Paradigms | 329 |
2 Transitive verbs | 335 |
3 Reflexive verbs | 362 |
III DumiEnglish Glossary | 365 |
IV Plates | 437 |
References | 447 |
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Common terms and phrases
actant allophone An-a antsi antsi?a Aŋ-a aŋki aspectivized attested in Sasarkā bamboo Bhimal Sin's bhu tree born offspring ceremony compound deities disincarnate Driem dual Dumi dumo dzu?u EMPH EQ PT ergative expression forms gerund glottal glottal stop go:ta/go:tim Halkhum hammil I-ERG imni intransitive intransitive conjugation intsi kaŋki khǝnikpa khələ Khopsi-Likpa khuts-i Kiranti languages Limbu lini lit nsi Mākpā malop mi:n millet beer mitni mombi Mombi-kə morpheme Na:ghi na:m Na:ye:m naksœ-sele NEG/PT Nepali nom.sf nominal non-first person non-preterite noun Nukhil occurs offspring or sibling open stem patient agreement perfect pheme phik phoneme pluperfect plural ponently aspectivized prefix preterite primordial pronouns reflexive reflexive verb rice ritual Ruwabhu shaman simplex someone speaker stem final stem vowel stone suffix there-pfG theyd TheyP third singular Tibeto-Burman transitive verbs tsu?u vide wede wedi wepe younger youp yous-ERG Σι пә