A Grammar of Miya - UCLA Department of Linguistics

Contents
Preface, xvii
Cross-referencing, Abbreviations, and Orthographic Conventions, xxi
1. THE MIY A PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE
1. Classification. Location, and Cultural Notes
2. Previous Work
3. The Present Study
2. SEGMENTAL PHONOLOGY
1. Consonants
1.1. Consonant inventory
1.1.1. Labial fricatives
1.1.2. Laryngeals
1.1.3. Prenasalized obstruents
1.1.4. Palatal obstruents
1.1.5. Examples of Miya consonants in context
1.2. Rules affecting consonants
1.2.1. Nasals in syllable codas
1.2.2. The realization of I ghl
2. Vowels
2.1. Vowel inventory
2.2. Vowel distribution and alternation
2.2.1. The vowel lal
2.2.2. Vowel length and the status of [i:] and [u:]
2.2.3. Diphthongs and monophthongization
2.2.3.1. Diphthongs as underlying layl and lawl
2.2.3.2. Monophthongization
2.2.4. Vowel elision
2.2.5. Neutralization of phrase final vowel length
3. Syllable and Word Structure
3.1. Syllable structure
3.1.1. Constraints on syllable codas
3.1.2. Position of fal in syllables
3.2. Word structure
4. Morphological Palatalization
3. TONAL PHONOLOGY
1. Miya Tones and Tone Marking
1.1. Miya tone basics
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