A Grammar of Meithei
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A Grammar of Meithei

  1. 568 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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A Grammar of Meithei

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110143218
eBook ISBN
9783110801118
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Maps
  3. Plates
  4. Abbreviations
  5. 1 Introduction
  6. 1.1 Classification
  7. 1.2 Geography
  8. 1.3 Religion
  9. 1.4 Political history
  10. 1.5 Material culture
  11. 1.6 Performing arts and sports
  12. 1.7 Dialects
  13. 1.8 Review of literature on the Meithei language
  14. 1.9 Fieldwork
  15. 1.10 Organization of this book
  16. 2 Phonetics and phonology
  17. 2.1 The consonant phonemes
  18. 2.2 The vowel phonemes
  19. 2.3 Syllable structure
  20. 2.4 Tone
  21. 2.5 Lexical rules
  22. 2.6 Post-lexical rules
  23. 3 Grammatical preview
  24. 3.1 Phrase structure of the main clause
  25. 3.2 Phrase structure of subordinated sentences
  26. 3.3 Major lexical categories
  27. 3.4 Minor lexical categories
  28. 3.5 Enclitics
  29. 4 Grammatical relations and information structure
  30. 4.1 Phrase structure
  31. 4.2 Case marking
  32. 4.3 Information structure
  33. 4.4 Case marking on peripheral noun phrases
  34. 4.5 Conclusion
  35. 5 Root sentences
  36. 5.1 Declarative
  37. 5.2 Optative
  38. 5.3 Imperative and prohibitive
  39. 5.4 Supplicative
  40. 5.5 Permissive
  41. 5.6 Interrogative
  42. 6 Subordination
  43. 6.1 Nominalization
  44. 6.2 Complementation
  45. 6.3 Adverbial clauses
  46. 6.4 The quotative subordinator
  47. 6.5 The ordering of clauses in the sentence
  48. 7 Affixal morphology
  49. 7.1 The verb morphology
  50. 7.2 The noun morphology
  51. 7.3 Enclitics
  52. 8 Compounding and duplication
  53. 8.1 Compounding
  54. 8.2 Duplication
  55. 9 Functional and pragmatic aspects
  56. 9.1 Indirect speech acts
  57. 9.2 Evidentiality
  58. Appendix I: Meithei – English glossary
  59. Appendix II: Meithei literature
  60. Appendix III: Meithei writing systems
  61. Appendix IV: Texts
  62. Notes
  63. References
  64. Index

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