A grammar of Yakkha, 2015

Contents
17.1.3 The quotative and textual topic particle baŋniŋ . . . . . 507
17.2 Focus and emphasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
17.2.1 The restrictive focus particle =se . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
17.2.2 The additive focus particle =ca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
17.2.3 The emphatic particle =pa ~ =ba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
17.2.4 The emphatic particle =i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
17.2.5 The contrastive focus particle =le . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
17.2.6 The emphatic particle =maŋ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
17.3 Epistemic, evidential and mirative markers . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
17.3.1 The reportative particle =pu ~ =bu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
17.3.2 The probability particle loppi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
17.3.3 The irrealis particle =pi ~ =bi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
17.3.4 The mirative particle rahecha (from Nepali) . . . . . . . 520
17.4 Exclamatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
17.4.1 The exclamative particle lai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
17.4.2 The exclamative particle =ʔlo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
17.4.3 The exclamative hau ~ =(a)u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
17.5 Further particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
17.5.1 The alternative particle =em . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
17.5.2 The question particle i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
17.5.3 The insistive particle (a)u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
17.6 Interjections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Appendix A: Texts 531
The owl and I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
The Namthalungma rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
The Linkha man’s bet with the sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
Appendix B: Yakkha kinship terms 561
Appendix C: Index of Yakkha formatives 565
References 569
Index 591
Name index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Language index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Subject index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
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