{"product_id":"grammar-of-poumai-naga-poula-a-trans-himalayan-language-of-north-east-india-9789004430532","title":"Grammar of Poumai Naga (Poula): A Trans-Himalayan Language of North-East India","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first complete description of Poumai Naga (Poula), an understudied language spoken in Manipur in northeast India. Poumai Naga belongs to the Angami-Pochuri clade of the Trans-Himalayan family. The book comprises all aspects of the language, including phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax, syntax and discourse. This work employs the tone periodic table, an innovative method used for documenting tone languages. A bilingual lexicon and a collection of fully-analysed texts are provided in the appendices. This research work represents a substantial contribution to the field of comparative Trans-Himalayan linguistics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210800750935,"sku":"9789004430532","price":233.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/grammar-of-poumai-naga-poula-a-trans-himalayan-language-of-north-east-india-9789004430532","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}