Kanasakar Tej R. et al. A Grammar of Baram

Linguistic and Ethnographic Documentation of the Baram Language (LEDBL), 2011. — iv + 286 p.Baram is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Gorkha district of western part of Nepal. The Baram language has been mentioned in different classifications of Tibeto-Burman languages. The closest genetic relation of Baram is regarded to be with the Thami language which is mainly spoken in the Dolakha district.
In addition to two appendices, the grammar is organized into thirteen chapters. Chapter 1 outlines Baram people and their language. It includes the genetic classification, previous studies and methods of data collection. Chapter 2
presents the summary of the sociolinguistic survey of the Baram language. The language is not used in natural discourse and has thus shrunk from its natural use. Chapter 3 discusses the phonology of the Baram language. Chapter 4 discusses some regular morphophonological processes of the Baram language. Chapter 5 presents nominal morphology. Chapter 6 presents the adjectival category of Baram. Chapter 7 deals with verb morphology in Baram. Adverbs are presented in Chapter 8 and closed word classes in Chapter 9. The structure of the noun phrases is analyzed in Chapter 10. Simple sentences and their modifications are presented in Chapter 11. In Chapter 12, clause combining in Baram is analyzed. Finally the grammar is summarized in Chapter 13.