A grammar of Meithei:
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| adam_text | Table
of
contents
Acknowledgements
xi
Maps
xiii
Plates
xvii
Abbreviations
xxiii
1
Introduction
1.1
Classification
1
1.2
Geography
3
1.3
Religion
5
1.4
Political history
6
1.5
Material culture
8
1.6
Performing arts and sports
10
1.7
Dialects
11
1.8
Review of literature on the Meithei language
11
1.9
Fieldwork
13
1.10
Organization of this book
15
2
Phonetics and phonology
2.1
The consonant phonemes
17
2.1.1
Contrastive
distribution
17
2.1.2
Free variation
20
2.1.3
Complementary distribution
20
2.2
The vowel phonemes
21
2.3
Syllable structure
22
2.4
Tone
25
2.4.1
The data
25
2.4.2
Roots
25
2.4.3
Suffixes
26
2.4.4
Lexicalized suffix combinations
34
2.4.5
Prefixes
37
2.4.6
Compounds
38
2.4.7
Enclitics
39
2.4.8
Summary and conclusion
39
2.5
Lexical rules
48
2.5.1
Voice assimilation
48
2.5.2
Deaspiration
54
2.5.3
Lateral deletion and Velar deletion
59
2.5.4
Total assimilation of
1 61
2.5.5
Summary
62
Table of
contents
2.6
Post-lexical rules
63
2.6.1
Diphthongization and Gemmation
64
2.6.2
Dissimilation and Debuccalization
67
2.6.3
Flapping
68
2.6.4
Simplification of rC clusters
69
2.6.5
Schwa deletion
69
2.6.6
Alternation of vowels with schwa
70
3
Grammatical preview
3.1
Phrase structure of the main clause
71
3.2
Phrase structure of subordinated sentences
75
3.3
Major
lexical
categories
77
3.3.1
Nouns
78
3.3.1.1
Pronouns: personal and possessive
78
3.3.1.2
Pronouns: indefinite
80
3.3.1.3
Pronouns: relative
80
3.3.1.4
Pronouns: demonstrative
81
3.3.1.5
Pronouns: emphatic
84
3.3.1.6
Numerals
85
3.3.2
Verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
86
3.3.2.1
Adjectives
86
3.3.2.2
Adverbs
87
3.4
Minor lexical categories
89
3.4.1
Quantifiers
89
3.4.2
Postpositions
90
3.4.3
Interjections
91
3.5
Enclitics
92
4
Grammatical relations and information structure
4.1
Phrase structure
93
4.1.1
The verb phrase as a constituent
93
4.1.2
Subjects in complements
94
4.1.3
Subjects in nominalization
96
4.1.4
Pronominal and anaphoric coreference
97
4.1.5
Extraction from subject
103
4.1.6
Subjects in imperative constructions
104
4.1.7
Lack of passive
106
4.1.8
Lack of agreement
106
4.1.9
Conclusion
107
4.2
Case marking
107
4.3
Information structure
114
4.3.1
Contrastiveness
114
4.3.2
Definiteness
116
4.3.3
The adversative marker
-pu
117
Table
of contents
VII
4.3.4
Word order and ambiguity
120
4.3.5
Restrictions on pragmatic marking
122
4.3.6
Volitionality
124
4.4
Case marking on peripheral noun phrases
125
4.4.1
Locative case
125
4.4.2
Ablative case
126
4.4.3
Genitive case
127
4.4.4
Associative case
128
4.4.5
Instrumental case
128
4.5
Conclusion
129
5
Root sentences
5.1
Declarative
132
5.2
Optative
133
5.3
Imperative and prohibitive
134
5.4
Supplicative
135
5.5
Permissive
137
5.6
Interrogative
137
5.6.1
Yes-no questions
137
5.6.2
Alternative questions
141
5.6.3
Tag questions
143
5.6.4
The morphology of question-word questions
144
5.6.5
Nominal and verbalized question words
145
5.6.6
Position of the question word
148
5.6.7
Multiple question words
150
5.6.8
Phrase final rising intonation
151
5.6.9
Use of question words as discourse markers
152
6
Subordination
6.1
Nominalization
155
6.1.1
Nominalizers
155
6.1.2
Relative clauses
157
6.1.2.1
Semantic role and pragmatic marking on the relativized
noun
159
6.1.2.2
Internally headed relative clauses
161
6.1.2.3
Question words as relative pronouns
162
6.1.2
A Quotatives used to signal relative clauses
163
6.1.2.5
Adjectives
164
6.1.2.6
Combining relative clauses and coreference
165
6.1.3
Verbs which subcategorize for nominalized clauses
168
6.2
Complementation
170
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contents
6.3
Adverbial
clauses
172
6.3.1
Case
markers
as clausal subordinators
172
6.3.2
Adverbial Participials
175
6.3.3
Lexical subordinators
178
6.3.4
-ti delimitative and
-su
also as
subordinators
179
6.3.5
Combinations of subordinators
180
6.4
The quotative subordinator
183
6.5
The ordering of clauses in the sentence
189
6.5.1
Embedding
191
6.5.2
Ellipsis
193
6.5.3
Clause chaining
193
6.5.4
Clausal coordination
196
7
Affixal morphology
7.1
The verb morphology
201
7.1.1
First level derivation
204
7.1.2
Second level derivation
211
7.1.2.1
Category
1:
Reciprocal and comitative
212
7.1.2.2
Category
2:
V for the sake of self/other
213
7.1.2.3
Category
3:
Causative
215
7.1.2.4
Category
4:
Desire to V
215
7.1.2.5
Category
5:
Speaker s attitude towards what extent
V is performed
216
7.1.2.6
Category
6:
Speaker s attitude towards time taken
to perform V
216
7.1.2.7
Category
7:
Indirect evidence
221
7.1.2.8
Category
8:
Directionals
224
7.1.2.9
Category
9:
Negative
228
7.1.2.10
Category
10:
Prospective aspect
-1э
229
7.1.3
Third level derivation
230
7.1.3.1
Category
11:
Potential and nonpotential mood
231
7.1.3.2
Category
12:
Necessity, obligation and intention
232
7.1.3.3
Combination of Category
11
and
12
mood markers
236
7.1.3.4
Combination category
11
and
12
with other verbal affixes
237
7.1.3.5
Category
13:
Aspect
239
7.1.4
Scope differences
240
7.1.5
Inflectional morphology
242
7.2
The noun morphology
242
7.2.1
Inflectional morphology
243
7.2.2
Derivational morphology
244
7.2.2.1
Category
2:
Gender
244
7.2.2.2
Category
3:
Number and quantification
245
7.2.2.3
Prefixai
categories
248
Table of
contents
ix
7.3
Enclitics
248
7.3.1
Determiners, semantic role and case markers
249
7.3.2
The copula
249
7.3.3
Mood markers
251
7.3.4
Pragmatic markers
251
7.3.5
Attitude markers
253
8
Compounding and duplication
8.1
Compounding
261
8.1.1
Productive combinations
261
8.1.2
Nonproductive combinations
262
8.1.3
Affixation within compounds
263
8.2
Duplication
264
8.2.1
Repetition
264
8.2.1.1
Word repetition
265
8.2.1.2
Stem repetition
271
8.2.2
Echo collocations
274
8.2.2.1
Echo collocations with free forms
274
8.2.2.1.1
Nonidentical stems with identical affixes
274
8.2.2.1.2
Nonidentical stems with identical morphology
276
8.2.2.1.3
Identical stems with nonidentical morphology
278
8.2.2.2
Echo word formation
280
8.2.3
Ideophones
281
9
Functional and pragmatic aspects
9.1
Indirect speech acts
285
9.1.1
Commanding
285
9.1.1.1
Attenuating commands with words or affixes
285
9.1.1.2
Attenuating the force of commands through
indirect speech
288
9.1.2
Requesting permission
292
9.1.3
Warning
292
9.1.4
Persuading
293
9.1.5
Blessing or cursing
293
9.1.6
Indirect questions
294
9.2
Evidentiality
295
9.2.1
Evidentiality in the complementation system
295
9.2.1.1
Lexical nominalizers
295
9.2.1.2
The evidential value of nominalized clauses
297
9.2.1.3
The distribution of the complementizers
300
9.2.1.4
Restrictions on tense and aspect in subordinate clauses
306
9.2.1.5
Summary
308
χ
Table of contents
9.2.2
Other evidential markings
309
9.2.3
Asking questions
311
9.2.4
Conclusion
312
Appendix I: Meithei
-
English glossary
313
Appendix II: Meithei literature
353
Appendix III: Meithei writing systems
355
Appendix IV: Texts
377
Notes
495
References
513
Index
535
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