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Papers presented at the Seminar on Writing organized by Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, from 22-24 November 1984.
The Lotha Naga language belongs to the central group of Naga languages of the Tibeto-Burman language family. It is spoken by the Lotha people who live mainly in the Wokha district of Nagaland. The text studies the structure of this language and covers phonology, morphhology and syntax.
The sixteen chapters in this volume are written by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have completed their Ph.D. theses in the first four years of this millennium. The authors address selected theoretical questions of general linguistic relevance drawing from a wealth of data hitherto unfamiliar to the general linguistic audience. The general aim is to broaden the horizons of typology by revisiting existing typologies with larger language samples, exploring domains not considered in typology before, taking linguistic diversity more seriously, strengthening the connection between typology and areal linguistics, and bridging the gap to other fields, such as historical l...