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Focusing on Gaddi, Chitkuli Kinnauri, Kullui, and Spiti of Himachal Pradesh, this book outlines a systematic framework for conducting fieldwork and performing a contrastive analysis of the Tense, Aspect, and Mood (TAM) systems for Indian languages. It covers data collection, documentation, and description of identified TAM features, culminating in a typology of languages based on the prominence of TAM in these languages. Additionally, the framework offers a unified theoretical model that can be used to generate all fully inflected word forms in these languages. The proposed framework can be used to analyze any combination of languages. Insights from this kind of study could also aid us in understanding feature permutations, organizing morphological cues to inform future fieldwork, and advancing our understanding of Indian languages' TAM systems and linguistic typology.

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Dr Shreya Mehta is a Temporary Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara (India). She recently completed her PhD in Linguistics from the Centre for Linguistics of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India). She is a trained field linguist who has been working towards documenting the languages of Himachal Pradesh for over seven years. As part of the Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (SPPEL) project for the Government of India, she has been engaged in documenting the lesser-known languages of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Her areas of interest include Field Linguistics, Language Documentation, and Morphology.

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