A grammar of Tuatschin

Download or read book A grammar of Tuatschin written by Philippe Maurer-Cecchini and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first descriptive grammar of Tuatschin, a Sursilvan Romansh dialect spoken by approximately 800 people in the westernmost part of the Romansh territory, in the canton of Grisons in southeastern Switzerland. The description is mainly based on narratives and elicitation, collected during fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2020. Besides the grammatical description, it also offers a variety of narratives produced by female and male native speakers between thirty and eighty years of age.