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Author:   Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   25
Weight:   1.164kg
ISBN:  

9789004430532

ISBN 10:   9004430539
Pages:   606
Publication Date:   23 September 2021
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Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 The Language  1.2 The People  1.3 History of the Poumai Naga  1.4 The Social System of the Poumai Naga  1.5 Genetic Classification  1.6 Previous Work Done on Poula and Related Languages  1.7 Organisation of the Grammar  1.8 Theoretical Framework and Data Collection 2 Sound System  2.1 Overview  2.2 Syllable Structure  2.3 Consonants  2.4 Vowels  2.5 Morphophonology  2.6 Word-Hood  2.7 Summary 3 Tone documentation  3.1 Overview  3.2 Tonemes in Poula  3.3 Phonetic Realisation of the Tonemes  3.4 Noun Morphotonology  3.5 Verb Morphotonology  3.6 Tone Pattern in Particles  3.7 The Tone Periodic Table  3.8 Illustration of the Poula Tone Periodic Table  3.9 Corpus  3.10 Summary 4 Word Classes  4.1 Overview  4.2 Content Words  4.3 Derived Modifiers  4.4 Functional Words  4.5 Summary 5 Expressive Words  5.1 Overview  5.2 Acoustic Symbolic Words  5.3 Articulatory Symbolic Words  5.4 Systematic Patterned Words  5.5 Prosody in Expressive Words  5.6 Summary 6 Noun Phrases  6.1 Overview  6.2 Components of the Noun Phrase  6.3 Noun Phrase Coordination  6.4 Appositions  6.5 Asyndetic Coordinations  6.6 Embedding Noun Phrases  6.7 Summary 7 Argument Marking  7.1 Overview  7.2 Argument Markers  7.3 Core Argument Markings  7.4 Summary 8 Nominalisation and Relative Clauses  8.1 Overview  8.2 Nominalisers  8.3 Derivational Nominalisation  8.4 Clausal Nominalisation  8.5 Relative Clauses  8.6 The Prosody of Nominalisation  8.7 Summary 9 Predicate Structure  9.1 Overview  9.2 Components of the Predicate Structure  9.3 The Causative pai-  9.4 Modifiers  9.5 Head  9.6 Verb Particles  9.7 Negation in Verbs  9.8 Tense and Aspect  9.9 Modality  9.10 Sentence Final Markers  9.11 Summary 10 Clause Types  10.1 Overview  10.2 Verbal Clauses  10.3 Nonverbal Clauses  10.4 Complement Clauses  10.5 Imperative Clauses  10.6 Interrogative Clauses  10.7 Summary 11 Clause Combining  11.1 Overview  11.2 Simple and Complex Clauses  11.3 Clause Linking Morphemes of Dependent Nonfinite clauses  11.4 Clause Linking Morphemes of Dependent Finite Clauses  11.5 The Sequential Marker -ly  11.6 The Quotative -rwù  11.7 Serial Verb Constructions  11.8 Summary 12 Discourse Particles  12.1 Overview  12.2 The Particle sw  12.3 The Particle w  12.4 The Particle wm  12.5 The Particle dwi  12.6 The Particle e  12.7 The Particle -khai  12.8 The Particle te  12.9 The Particle nga  12.10 The Particle o  12.11 The Particle -ma  12.12 The Particle swshokozw  12.13 The Particle ty  12.14 The Attention Particle shiva  12.15 The Particle ‘That Is’  12.16 The Particle zyko  12.17 The Particle thwutimò  12.18 The Particle sa  12.19 The Comparatives Particles  12.20 The Conditional -ko  12.21 The Non-specific tara  12.22 The Particle -laí Expressing certainty  12.23 Particles Expressing Probability 13 Text Samples  13.1 The Story of Liipeirou (Lwpwiru)  13.2 The Story of Ro  13.3 The Story of Chiiho  13.4 The Story of Dziilai Chína  13.5 The Story of Ziile Mou ‘Rice Seedling’  13.6 Narration on the Ritual Ki  13.7 A Short Narration about the Place Call khia  13.8 Conversation 14 List of Words References Index

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Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho, Ph.D. (2019), University of Bern, is a researcher specializing in Angami-Pochuri languages of the Trans-Himalayan family. He has published several articles on Trans-Himalyan languages spoken in northeast India.

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