Grammar of Poumai Naga (Poula)

Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho, Ph.D. (2019), University of Bern, is a researcher specializing in Angami-Pochuri languages of the Trans-Himalayan family. He has published several articles on Trans-Himalyan languages spoken in northeast India.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviations1 Introduction1.1 The Language1.2 The People1.3 History of the Poumai Naga1.4 The Social System of the Poumai Naga1.5 Genetic Classification1.6 Previous Work Done on Poula and Related Languages1.7 Organisation of the Grammar1.8 Theoretical Framework and Data Collection2 Sound System2.1 Overview2.2 Syllable Structure2.3 Consonants2.4 Vowels2.5 Morphophonology2.6 Word-Hood2.7 Summary3 Tone documentation3.1 Overview3.2 Tonemes in Poula3.3 Phonetic Realisation of the Tonemes3.4 Noun Morphotonology3.5 Verb Morphotonology3.6 Tone Pattern in Particles3.7 The Tone Periodic Table3.8 Illustration of the Poula Tone Periodic Table3.9 Corpus3.10 Summary4 Word Classes4.1 Overview4.2 Content Words4.3 Derived Modifiers4.4 Functional Words4.5 Summary5 Expressive Words5.1 Overview5.2 Acoustic Symbolic Words5.3 Articulatory Symbolic Words5.4 Systematic Patterned Words5.5 Prosody in Expressive Words5.6 Summary6 Noun Phrases6.1 Overview6.2 Components of the Noun Phrase6.3 Noun Phrase Coordination6.4 Appositions6.5 Asyndetic Coordinations6.6 Embedding Noun Phrases6.7 Summary7 Argument Marking7.1 Overview7.2 Argument Markers7.3 Core Argument Markings7.4 Summary8 Nominalisation and Relative Clauses8.1 Overview8.2 Nominalisers8.3 Derivational Nominalisation8.4 Clausal Nominalisation8.5 Relative Clauses8.6 The Prosody of Nominalisation8.7 Summary9 Predicate Structure9.1 Overview9.2 Components of the Predicate Structure9.3 The Causative pai-9.4 Modifiers9.5 Head9.6 Verb Particles9.7 Negation in Verbs9.8 Tense and Aspect9.9 Modality9.10 Sentence Final Markers9.11 Summary10 Clause Types10.1 Overview10.2 Verbal Clauses10.3 Nonverbal Clauses10.4 Complement Clauses 10.5 Imperative Clauses10.6 Interrogative Clauses10.7 Summary11 Clause Combining11.1 Overview11.2 Simple and Complex Clauses11.3 Clause Linking Morphemes of Dependent Nonfinite clauses11.4 Clause Linking Morphemes of Dependent Finite Clauses11.5 The Sequential Marker -ly11.6 The Quotative -rwù11.7 Serial Verb Constructions11.8 Summary12 Discourse Particles12.1 Overview12.2 The Particle sw12.3 The Particle w12.4 The Particle wm12.5 The Particle dwi12.6 The Particle e12.7 The Particle -khai12.8 The Particle te12.9 The Particle nga12.10 The Particle o12.11 The Particle -ma12.12 The Particle swshokozw12.13 The Particle ty12.14 The Attention Particle shiva12.15 The Particle ‘That Is’12.16 The Particle zyko12.17 The Particle thwutimò12.18 The Particle sa12.19 The Comparatives Particles12.20 The Conditional -ko12.21 The Non-specific tara12.22 The Particle -laí Expressing certainty12.23 Particles Expressing Probability13 Text Samples13.1 The Story of Liipeirou (Lwpwiru)13.2 The Story of Ro13.3 The Story of Chiiho13.4 The Story of Dziilai Chína13.5 The Story of Ziile Mou ‘Rice Seedling’13.6 Narration on the Ritual Ki13.7 A Short Narration about the Place Call khia13.8 Conversation14 List of WordsReferencesIndex