{"id":798,"date":"2010-08-13T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=798"},"modified":"2010-06-14T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T12:00:34","slug":"rajbanshi-grammar-and-interlinearized-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Rajbanshi grammar and interlinearized text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rajbanshi grammar and interlinearized text. <\/strong>By<strong> Tikaram Poudel<\/strong>. (LINCOM studies in\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Indo-European linguistics 34.) Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2006. Pp. 132. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/rajbanshi-grammar-and-interlinearized-text\/oclc\/76873938&amp;referer=brief_results\">9783895863233<\/a>. $86.66.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.public.asu.edu\/~gelderen\/elly.htm\"><strong>Elly van Gelderen<\/strong><\/a>, <em>Arizona State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rajbanshi is spoken in the borderlands of India and Nepal. At last count, there were approximately three-million speakers of Rajbanshi in India, one-hundred-thousand in Nepal, and thirteen-thousand in Bangladesh (Ethnologue.com). In this volume, Tikaram<strong> <\/strong>Poudel limits his study to the variety of Rajbanshi spoken in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>In Ch. 1, P introduces the speakers of Rajbanshi. Ch. 2 overviews Rajbanshi\u2019s phonology, Ch. 3 explores its morphology, and Ch. 4 examines its syntax. Ch. 5 provides a sample text, which includes a morpheme gloss and a free translation.<\/p>\n<p>Rajbanshi nouns bear number, gender, and case and the verbs are inflected for person and number. Unlike many languages in the area that are split ergative, Rajbanshi is a nominative\/accusative language. Both auxiliaries and \u2018vector\u2019 verbs (which are more lexical than auxiliaries and can be combined with auxiliaries and negated independently) are numerous.<\/p>\n<p>The word order in Rajbanshi is verb-final and <em>wh<\/em>-words remain in-situ. P discusses the structure of the noun phrase, agreement markers, and passives. Declarative sentences may be equative, intransitive, transitive, bitransitive, or complex transitive. Imperatives are verb-final constructions in which the verb is inflected for the status of the listener.<\/p>\n<p>This book provides an introduction to the grammar of Rajbanshi. Although he provides good examples and glosses, P leaves the reader wanting more data and description at times. It is hoped that the publication of this grammar will inspire P to do a more in-depth study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajbanshi grammar and interlinearized text. By Tikaram Poudel. (LINCOM studies in\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Indo-European linguistics 34.) Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2006. Pp. 132. ISBN 9783895863233. $86.66. Reviewed by Elly van Gelderen, Arizona State University Rajbanshi is spoken in the borderlands of India and Nepal. At last count, there were approximately three-million speakers of Rajbanshi in India, one-hundred-thousand in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}