@phdthesis{135043,
  address               = {Eugene},
  author                = {Soe, Myint},
  pages                 = {xiv+362},
  publisher             = {University of Oregon},
  school                = {Eugene: University of Oregon},
  title                 = {A Grammar of Burmese},
  year                  = {1999},
  abstract              = {This study describes and analyzes the major areas of the grammar of spoken colloquial Burmese, discussing, wherever appropriate, the functional and semantic motivations underlying syntactic alternations. Burmese has only two lexical word classes, the noun and the verb, together with an assortment of grammatical morphemes. Grammatical relations which are indicated by word order and inflections in other languages, are, for the most part, indicated by grammatical morphemes in Burmese. A noun may be followed by a string of morphemes indicating number, intra-clausal propositional semantic role, and inter-clausal discourse or pragmatic function. This study shows that grammatical morphemes, which follow the noun and fall into position classes, become more abstract in function and reduced in form the further they occur from the head. The analysis of the structure of the verb phrase shows an analogous pattern. Burmese is noted for the number of versatile auxiliary verbs following the head. A good portion of this study relates the grammatical function of versatile auxiliaries to relative order, and shows how synchronic grammaticalized role correlates with relative versatile auxiliary order. Specifically, that the grammatical function of a versatile auxiliary varies with its position relative to other versatile auxiliaries. As the meaning of a verb determines its grammatical properties, this study categorizes verb types according to the common semantic properties they share. The study concludes with a description and analysis of clausal embedding, subordination and conjunction, providing evidence in part, from Burmese, of the correlation hypothesized to hold between strength of semantic bond and degree of syntactic integration.},
  adviser               = {DeLancey, Scott},
  bestfn                = {eurasia\soe_burmese1999v2_o.pdf},
  besttxt               = {ptxt2\eurasia\soe_burmese1999v2_o.txt},
  cfn                   = {eurasia\soe_burmese1999_o.pdf},
  citekeys              = {cldf1:Soe-1999 cldf3:13237},
  class_loc             = {PL3931},
  degree                = {PhD},
  delivered             = {eurasia\soe_burmese1999_o.pdf},
  digital_formats       = {PDF 11.89Mb image-only PDF},
  document_type         = {B},
  fn                    = {eurasia\soe_burmese1999_o.pdf, eurasia\soe_burmese1999v2.pdf, eurasia\soe_burmese1999.pdf, eurasia\soe_burmese1999v2_o.pdf, eurasia/soe_burmese1999_o.pdf, eurasia\soe _burmese1999v2.pdf},
  hhtype                = {grammar},
  inlg                  = {English [eng]},
  isbn                  = {9780599606654},
  iso_code              = {mya},
  isreferencedby        = {cldf1 cldf3},
  lgcode                = {Burmese [mya]},
  macro_area            = {Eurasia},
  mpi_eva_library_shelf = {PL 3931 SOE 2003},
  mpifn                 = {burmese_soe1999_o.pdf},
  oclc                  = {313722186},
  olac_field            = {syntax; morphology; typology; general_linguistics},
  source                = {DAI-A 61/01, p. 158, Jul 2000},
  src                   = {cldf, hh, mpieva},
  subject               = {LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS (0290)},
  subject_headings      = {Burmese language–Grammar, Burmese language–Grammar},
  umi_id                = {9957575},
  wals_code             = {brm},
  wals_ref_name         = {Soe 1999}
}