Studies in Linguistics of the North Eastern Languages

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Reduplication in Nagamese/Ajit Kumar Baishya. 2. Some aspects of the structure of Liangmai/H.G. Amos Moita. 3. Functions of complementizer in Khasi/Artidaris Lyngdoh. 4. Evidences of sound changes in Tiwa: a synthronic account/Arup Kumar Nath. 5. A study on the status of official languages in sikkim/Ash Bahadur Subba. 6. Some aspects of the structure of syllheti/Awadesh K. Misra and Sudipta Bhattacharjee. 7. Some aspects of the structure of Simte/N. Brojen Singh. 8. The impact of borrowed words in Manipuri and Thangal vocabularies/Th. Chandramani Singh. 9. Language retention and change among the immigrant tea garden labourers of Assam/Debdendra Kuma Nayal and Pradip Goswami. 10. The phonological typlogy of the Tibeto-burman languages of the northeast: a preliminary investigation/Kh. Dhiren Singha.....

The present volume contains nineteen research papers and articles written by language teachers, linguistics, researchers, and language educators working in the areas of linguistics and language education. These papers and articles address some of the issues pertaining to linguistic structures, speech corpora, Orthography, language shift, etc. of some of the languages spoken in the North East Region.  The papers and articles included in this volume express concerns of the language teachers, linguistics and researchers working on the languages of this part of India. The authors have attempted to describe and discuss hitherto unknown facts about the structure of some of the languages spoken in the North-East region, especially the lesser known/not so well studied minor/non-scheduled and tribal languages like lepcha, Khasi, Tiwa, Thangal, Tarao, Vaiphei etc.