| This thesis is a grammatical description of Longxi variety of Qiang, a Tibetan-Burman language spoken in Longxi Township, Wenchuan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. It is based on a large corpus that was recorded during fieldwork trips totaling eight-months conducted between September 2013-January 2015. This thesis contains 14 chapters and five full interlinear texts in the appendix.;Chapter 1 is an overview of Longxi Township, Qiang people and language. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 discuss segmental phonology and tone respectively.;Chapter 4 discusses nominal form classes; Chapter 5 discusses verbal form classes; Chapter 6 discusses adverb form classes. The structure of the noun phrase and nominal morphology are discussed in Chapter 7 and noun phrase markers including semantic role markers and discourse markers are described in detail in Chapter 8. The structure of the predicate is discussed in Chapter 9. Moods are discussed separately in Chapter 10; evidentiality, epistemic modality, and speaker attitude are described in Chapter 11; negation is discussed in Chapter 12.;The structure of clause is discussed in Chapter 13. The last Chapter gives an introduction of discourse features. |
