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CONTENTS

SEMA GRAMMAR

  Foreword
  Preface
Acknowledgement

  1. INTRODUCTION

    Migration
    Linguistic affinity
    Nomenclature: Naga: a heterogeneous group
    Special features of the Sema community
    Village
    Matriarchy
    Religious belief
    Clan practices
    Location
    Dialects and script
    Achievement of the State Government in Education
    Literature Committees
    Published works and School Language
    Data Collection and the analytical frame work

  2. PHONOLOGY

    Phonemes
    General Statements
    Vowels
    The distributions of the positional variants of the vowels
    The distribution of the positional variants of the consonants
    Phonotactics
    Syllabic patterns

  3. GRAMMAR

    Grammatical classes: setting up of
    Nominal
    Nouns
    Morphological construction
    Sub-classification
    Pronouns
    Morphological construction
    Sub-classification
    Numerals
    Sub-classifications
    Types of combination
    Ordinals
    Fractions
    Positional variants of the numerals
    Grammatical categories of the nominals
    Number
    Gender
    Case
    Case relation
    Verbs
    Morphological construction
    Sub-classification
    Loacative verbs
    Principal verbs
    Stationary vs motion verbs
    Transitive vs intransitive verbs
    Dia-transitive verbs
    Causatives
    Sub-classification
    Active vs passive
    Grammatical categories of the verbs
    Tense
    Aspect
    Modals
    Positional variants of tenses and aspects
    Invariables
    Adjectives
    Sub-classification
    Degree of comparison
    Reduplication
    Animate-inanimate correction
    Adverbs
    Sub-classification
    Intensifiers
    Particles
    Phrases
    Adjective phrases
    Adverb phrases
    Noun phrases
    Verb phrases
    clauses
    Types of clauses and their functions
    Sub-classification of the subordinate clauses
    Sentences
    Types of sentences
    Minor types of sentences
    Major types of sentences
    Transformation
    Interrogation
    Negation

    APPENDIX
    Texts
    The story of nispa and nisala
    The story of the squirrel and pheasant
    Story of Licapa: origin of the rice cultivation
    Select Bibliography


 
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