Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-516) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Phonology and phonological processes -- 3. Prosody -- 4. Word classes -- 5. Clause structure and grammatical functions -- 6. The noun phrase, relative clauses and nominalizations -- 7. Nominal morphology -- 8. Verbs and verbal morphology -- 9. Verbless, copula and existential clauses -- 10. Imperatives -- 11. Clause combining -- Texts -- The story of the longtailed broadbill -- The story of Noksensangba and Imtisangba -- The founding of Mangmetong village -- The birds' conference -- English -- Mongsen Ao glossary.
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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 n.
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Grammar of Mongsen Ao.
Ao language-- Grammar.
Ao language-- Grammar.
Ao-Naga.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- Southeast Asian Languages.