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Notes on KokBorok grammar (open access)

Notes on KokBorok grammar

Handwritten notes from the 1978-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. There are word lists of verbs and common nouns and notes from elicitations of grammatical categories including TAM, gender, classifiers, particles, negation, subordinators, and adverbials. See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: 1987/1988
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Preliminary Issues in the Reconstruction of Proto-KokBorok (open access)

Some Preliminary Issues in the Reconstruction of Proto-KokBorok

This is a description of Proto-KokBorok prepared as part of the 1987-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with some handwritten notes from Jim Matisoff. Tripura describes regional variation and provides a phoneme inventory, rhyme classes, and correspondences with Bodo.
Date: May 27, 1988
Creator: Tripura, Prashanta
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on KokBorok grammar (open access)

Notes on KokBorok grammar

Handwritten notes from the 1978-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. Grammatical notes cover reduplication, compound nouns, verbal particles, and serial verbs. Some notes are in Bengali and other languages. Sociolinguistic and historical notes describe sound changes, regional variation, and the relationships between KokBorok and other Bodo-Garo languages. See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: 1987/1988
Creator: Tripura, Prashanta; Jurafsky, Dan & Matisoff, James A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
KokBorok dictionary drafts and notes (open access)

KokBorok dictionary drafts and notes

Notes from the 1978-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. These are typed drafts of a KokBorok dictionary with notes and questions from the authors to each other. The drafts are organized by initial and rhyme. For some entries, the form is also provided in Bengali (Bng.), Bodo (B.), or the Naitong variety of KokBorok (Ntg.). See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: May 1988
Creator: Matisoff, James A.; Tripura, Prashanta & Jurafsky, Dan
System: The UNT Digital Library