Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics No. 7

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Contents iii{Ronald L. Trail, with Harisingh T. Rathod, Geeta Chand, Chaudhary Roy, Indira Shrestha, Nirmal Man Tuladhar} 1SOME LAMANI SENTENCE TYPES: AN EXPERIMENT IN PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH. I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. SOME LAMANI SENTENCE TYPES 4 A. Conditional Sentence 4 B. Antithetical Sentence 8 C. Alternative Sentence 11 D. Conjunctive Sentence 14 III. CLOSING REMARKS 16 Symbols and Abbreviations 18 Note 20 References 21{Peter J. Grainger} 23A PALATOGRAPHY EXPERIMENT TO SHOW THE CONTRAST BETWEEN DENTAL AND POST-ALVEOLAR STOPS IN PUNJABI. INTRODUCTION 23 PROCEDURE 23 EXPERIMENT 24 RESULTS 24 LIMITATIONS 25 FURTHER AREAS FOR INVESTIGATION 25 POSTSCRIPT 26 Reference 26 Firth's Palatogram Figure 27 Palatogram Photographs 28{Warren W. Glover and John K. Landon} 29GURUNG DIALECTS. 1. LOCAL OPINION 31 2. WORD LISTS 32 3. ISOGLOSSES 35 4. SOUND SHIFTS 36 5. INTELLIGIBILITY TESTING 38 6. CONCLUSIONS 48 Map 1: Gandaki Anchal 54 Map 2: Isogloss Counts 55 Map 3: Grouping Test Points by Intelligibility 56 Map 4: Grouping of Test Points by Vocabulary Likenesses 57 Appendix 1: Swadesh List in Gurung Dialects 58 Appendix 2: Test Sentences 66 Notes 72 References 76{Austin Hale and Thakurlal Manandhar} 79CASE AND ROLE IN NEWARI. 1. CASES 79 2. ACTOR COMPLEX 80 3. SITE COMPLEX 82 4. UNDERGOER COMPLEX 84 Notes 90 References 93{Austin Hale} 95PERSON MARKERS: FINITE CONJUNCT AND DISJUNCT VERB FORMS IN NEWARI. 1. THE PROBLEM 95 2. CONJUNCT, DISJUNCT, AND THE TRUE INSTIGATOR 96 3. QUOTES, QUOTE FRAMES, AND CO-REFERENTIAL ACTORS 97 4. QUESTIONS AND THE CO-REFERENCE RULE 98 5. TRUE QUESTIONS, RHETORICAL QUESTIONS, AND THE FIRST PERSON 99 6. SUMMARY OF THE FINITE CONJUNCT-DISJUNCT PATTERNS 100 Notes 102 References 105{Burkhard Schöttelndreyer} 107GLIDES IN SHERPA. I. THE PROBLEM 107 II. A PROPOSAL 108 III. INITIAL CLUSTERING WITH /y/ AND /w/ 110 Notes 112{Burkhard Schöttelndreyer} 113VOWEL AND TONE PATTERNS IN THE SHERPA VERB. I. THE BASE FORM 113 II. PRINCIPAL PARTS AND VOWEL PATTERNS 114 III. TONE PATTERNS 116 IV. DERIVATION PROCEDURE 117 V. SAMPLE DERIVATION 119 Notes 122{Burkhard Schöttelndreyer} 125PERSON MARKERS IN SHERPA. I. THE PROBLEM 125 II. MATRIX FOCUS AND THE PERFORMATIVE 126 III. DIRECT QUOTATION 126 IV. INDIRECT QUOTATION 128 V. RHETORICAL QUESTION 129 Notes 130