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First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
A 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.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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