List of abbreviations 8 // 0 Introduction 9 // 1 Characteristics of spoken Sibe 20 // 1.1 Notes on the phonclics and phonology 20 // 1.1.1 Problems of the phonological description of Sibe 20 // 1.1.2 Previous research of the Sibe phonemic system 21 // 1.1.3 List of sounds in spoken Sibe 24 // 1.2 Questions of transcription 28 // 1.3 Remarks on the Sibe vocabulary 29 // 1.3.1 Personal names 31 // 1.3.2 Children’s expressions 32 // 1.3.3 Vicarious expressions 32 // 1.4 Remarks on syntax negation 32 // 1.4.1 The negative particle aq* 33 // 1.4.2 The negative particle vaq 34 // 1.5 Word classes in spoken Sibe 35 // 1.5.1 Brief characteristics of the parts of speech 37 // 2 The Noun 41 // 2.1 The category of number 41 // 2.1.1 Generic number 42 // 2.1.2 Partial number 43 // 2.1.3 Specific forms of the use of the partial number 45 // 2.1.4 Expressing plurality through lexical means 46 // 2.2 The category of ease 48 // 2.2.1 Nominative 50 // 2.2.2 Genitive 52 // 2.2.3 Dative-locative 55 // 2.2.4 Accusative 60 // 2.2.5 Ablative 64 // 2.2.6 Lalivc 67 // 2.2.7 Instrumcntal-sociativc 69 // 3 Qualitative nouns // 3.1 Qualitative nouns formed by derivational suffixes .. // 3.1.2 Qualitative nouns in the function of an attribute // 3.1.3 Qualitative nouns determining verbs // Ł Ł Ł Ł // 3.1.4 Specific grammalical caicgoncs of qualilalivc nouns 83 // 3.1.5 Other ways of expressing quality, appearance, eie 85 // 3.1.6 Vicarious qualitative nouns and other anaphoric expressions 87 // 4 Pronouns 93 // 4.1 Personal pronouns 93 // 4.1.1 Personal pronouns in nominative 94 // 4.1.2 Personal pronouns in genitive 95 // 4.1.3 Personal pronouns in dative 95 // 4.1.4 Personal pronouns in accusative 95 // 4.1.5 Personal pronouns in ablative 96 // 4.1.6 Personal pronouns in lativc 96 // 4.1.7 Personal pronouns in instrumental-sociative 96 // 4.2 Remarks on the personal pronouns 97 //
4.3 Demonstrative pronouns 102 // 4.3.1 The demonstrative pronouns zr and Or 102 // 4.3.2 The pronouns ??? and ??!?? 104 // 4.3.3 The pronouns .»* and 105 // 4.4 Interrogative pronouns ?7 // 4.4.1 The pronoun ai 107 // 4.4.2 The pronoun yo-‘which’as an attribute 108 // 4.4.3 The pronoun yam (< ya ?? -‘which one’) 108 // 4.4.4 The pronoun ??? (‘which one’ an independent pan of speech) 109 // 4.4.5 The pronoun ?? (‘who’) 109 // 4.5 Notes on demonstrative and interrogative pronouns 109 // 5 Numerals 112 // 5.1 The cardinal numerals 113 // 5.2 The ordinal numerals 113 // 5.3 The idiomatic use of numerals 114 // 6 Spaliate 115 // 6.1 The spatial system in written Manchu 115 // 6.1.1 The spatial roots in written Manchu 115 // 6.1.2 The spatial sulhxcs in written Manchu 116 // 6.1.3 Meaning and use of the Manchu spatial suffixes 117 // 6.2 The spatial system in spoken Sibe 119 // 6.2.1 Spatial roots in spoken Sibe 119 // 6.2.2 Spatial suffixes in spoken Sibe 119 // 6.2.3 The use of Sibe spaliate 120 // 6.2.4 The suffix -? 122 // 6.2.5 The suffix -i 122 // 6.2.6 Temporal use of spaliate 124 // 7 The verb 126 // 7.1 The verbal system of spoken Sibe 126 // 7.1.1 The problem of definition of the finite verbs in Sibe 128 // 7.1.2 The delayed personal pronoun 130 // 7.1.3 Verbum existcntiac 131 // 7.1.4 Negation of verbal forms 131 // 7.1.5 Question 135 // 7.2 Finite verbs 136 // 7.2.1 The imperfect verb -m(-i-e) (praesens imperfecti) 137 // 7.2.2 The progressive verb -miye 140 // 7.2.3 The progressive verb -?-?-?-??) (PROG.II) 142 // 7.2.4 The perfective verb -??(?), -???) and its alomorphs 142 // 7.2.5 The verbal form expressing a forthcoming action ?-ůnůi 143 // 7.3 Imperative and optative forms 144 // 7.3.1 Command for the second-person imperative 144 // 7.3.2 Polite imperative -me (bcncdictivc) 147 // 7.3.3 Voluntativc 147 // 7.3.4 Optative -kini 148 //
7.4 Verbal nouns 149 // 7.4.1 The imperfective verbal noun -r (nomen imperfecti) 149 // 7.4.2 Perfective verbal noun -h (nomen perfecti) 155 // 7.4.3 The progressive verbal noun -man 158 // 7.4.4 Verbal nouns II 158 // 7.5 Converbs 162 // 7.5.1 The imperfcetive converb-m(a) (converbum imperfecti) 163 // 7.5.2 The perfective convert) -maq (convcibum perfecti) 170 // 7.5.3 The perfective convert) */ie)/ e) 174 // 7.5.4 The conditional convert) -ci (convcrbum conditionale).. rr 174 // 7.5.5 Terminative convert) 177 // 7.6 Dcvcrbal sulhxcs 178 // 7.6.1 The causative suffix -v 178 // 7.6.2 Beginning of an action: the suffix -maci- 181 // 7.7 Vicarious verbs 182 // Acknowledgments 186 // Appendix 187 // Vocabulary 204 // References 227 // Summary 230