LEADER 04347nam 22006614a 450 001 9910810443103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-23821-X 010 $a1-282-19445-3 010 $a9786612194450 010 $a9786611238216 010 $a3-11-019852-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110198522 035 $a(CKB)1000000000691452 035 $a(EBL)364654 035 $a(OCoLC)437233348 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164947 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153436 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164947 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10124731 035 $a(PQKB)11232584 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC364654 035 $a(DE-B1597)33865 035 $a(OCoLC)1013950851 035 $a(OCoLC)853248270 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110198522 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL364654 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10256554 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL919132 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000691452 100 $a20070611d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA grammar of Mongsen Ao /$fby A.R. Coupe 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (552 p.) 225 1 $aMouton grammar library,$x0933-7636 ;$v39 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's dissertation (doctoral--La Trobe University, 2003). 311 $a3-11-019088-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [505]-516) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tTable of contents -- $tChapter 1 Introduction -- $tChapter 2 Phonology and phonological processes -- $tChapter 3 Prosody -- $tChapter 4 Word classes -- $tChapter 5 Clause structure and grammatical functions -- $tChapter 6 The noun phrase, relative clauses and nominalizations -- $tChapter 7 Nominal morphology -- $tChapter 8 Verbs and verbal morphology -- $tChapter 9 Verbless, copula and existential clauses -- $tChapter 10 Imperatives -- $tChapter 11 Clause combining -- $t Backmatter 330 $aA Grammar of Mongsen Ao, the result of the author's fieldwork over a ten-year period, presents the first comprehensive grammatical description of a language spoken in Nagaland, north-east India. The languages of this region remain under-documented for a number of historical reasons. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the widespread cultural practice of head-hunting discouraged outsiders from entering the Naga Hills. Shortly after Indian independence in 1947, an armed rebellion by Naga separatists and a government policy of restricting access to the troubled area ensured that Nagaland remained a difficult place to conduct research. In this context, A Grammar of Mongsen Ao offers valuable new insights into the structure of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in a linguistically little-known region of the world. The grammatical analysis documents all the functional domains of the language and includes four glossed and translated texts, the latter being of interest to anthropologists studying folklore. Mongsen Ao is a highly agglutinating, mostly suffixing language with predominantly dependent-marking characteristics. Its grammar demonstrates a number of typologically interesting features that are described in detail in the book. Among these is an unusual case marking system in which grammatical marking is motivated by semantic and pragmatic factors, and a rich verbal morphology that produces elaborate sequences of agglutinative suffixes. Grammaticalisation processes are also discussed where relevant, thereby extending the appeal of the book to linguists with interests in grammaticalisation theory. This book will be of value to any linguist seeking to clarify genetic relationships within the Tibeto-Burman family, and it will serve more broadly as a reference grammar for typologists interested in the typological features of a Tibeto-Burman language of north-east India. 410 0$aMouton grammar library ;$v39. 606 $aAo language$xGrammar 615 0$aAo language$xGrammar. 676 $a495/.4 700 $aCoupe$b A. R$g(Alexander Robertson)$01701122 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810443103321 996 $aA grammar of Mongsen Ao$94084648 997 $aUNINA