Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783110198522
Series Statement:
Mouton Grammar Library 39
Content:
A Grammar of Mongsen Ao 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. 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.
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110190885
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Coupe, Alexander R., 1958 - A grammar of Mongsen Ao Berlinc [u.a.] : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007 ISBN 3110190885
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110190885
Language:
English
Keywords:
Mongsen
;
Grammatik
DOI:
10.1515/9783110198522
URL:
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Author information:
Coupe, Alexander R. 1958-
