Clause, Sentence, and Discourse Patterns in Selected Languages of Nepal: Part I, General Approach.

This volume, the first in a series of four on the languages of Nepal, contains the following papers: "Toward the Systematization of Display Grammar,""Clause Patterns in Kham,""Tentative Systemic Organization of Nepali Sentences,""Maithili Sentences,""Notation for Simultaneous Representation of Grammatical and Sememic Components in Connected Discourse,""Paired-Sentence Reversals in the Discovery of Underlying and Surface Structures in Sherpa Discourse,""Contra-Expectancy Particles in Tharu Bhojpuri,""Chaining and Spotlighting: Two types of Paragraph Boundaries in Sunwar," and "An Approach to Discourse in Sunwar." For other volumes in the series, see FL 004 895, FL 004 897, and FL 004 898. (DD)