Description
This is a descriptive grammar of the Sre dialect group of the K_ho language. K_ho, a Mon-Khmer (Austroasiatic) language, is spoken by an indigenous population of more than 207,000 people located in L‰m __ng province in the highland region of Vi_t Nam.
This grammar provides an overview of the syntactic structure of Sre. Sre is a polysyllabic (usually dissyllabic) language with a synchronic tendency towards reduction of the presyllable (the weaker or minor syllable) and development in the remaining (main or major) syllable of contrastive pitch characteristics associated with vowel length. Vowel length, in turn, is influenced by the main syllable coda. A formerly complex system of nominal classifiers (operating in the pattern: numeral + classifier + noun) has been reduced to three generally used classifiers. Sentence structure is subject + verb + object with a fairly rigid word order with some phrase or clause movement to indicate certain syntactic functions.
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