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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME ONE
LIST OF FIGURES .............................................................................................................v
LIST OF TABLES ...........................................................................................................vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................................viii
ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................xi
ABBREVIATIONS ...........................................................................................................xii
Chapter
1. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................1
1.1 Demography and geography ...............................................................2
1.2 Classification.......................................................................................5
1.3 Ethnology and history .......................................................................11
1.4 The sociolinguistic situation .............................................................15
1.5 Dialects..............................................................................................18
1.6 Previous research on Mono ...............................................................19
1.7 Overview and methodology ..............................................................20
2. PHONEMES ....................................................................................................24
2.1 Consonants ........................................................................................27
2.2 Vowels ..............................................................................................38
2.3 Distribution of phonemes ..................................................................42
3. TONE ...............................................................................................................46
3.1 Lexical tone .......................................................................................46
3.2 Grammatical tone ..............................................................................50
3.3 Distribution of tones .........................................................................52
4. LABIALIZATION AND PALATALIZATION..............................................56
4.1 Description ........................................................................................58
4.2 Suggested interpretations ..................................................................62
4.3 Distribution of labialization and palatalization .................................67
5. THE SYLLABLE ............................................................................................69
5.1 Syllable types ....................................................................................71
6. WORD SHAPES .............................................................................................77
6.1 Nominal word shapes ........................................................................78
6.2 Verbal word shapes ...........................................................................86
6.3 Adverbial word shapes ......................................................................87
6.4 Grammatical-function-word word shapes .........................................90
7. MORPHOLOGY ............................................................................................91
7.1 Grammatical categories.....................................................................92
7.2 Phonological processes which cross morpheme or word
boundaries .......................................................................................118
7.3 Summary .........................................................................................122
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