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.

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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



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