A grammar of Pnar

• Main Author: Ring, Hiram
• Other Authors: Frantisek Kratochvil
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Phonetics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Phonology; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Morphology; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Syntax
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/62519
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis provides an initial descriptive analysis of a largely undescribed Austroasiatic language of Meghalaya, northeast India. Pnar has often been overlooked because of its lexical similarity to Khasi, with which it shares a common identity and society. Features such as verb-initial constituent...