A grammar of West Kameng Sajolang (Miji): (Upper Dzang and Khellong villages)

Abstract

This dissertation is a descriptive grammar of the Sajolang language, which is spoken in West Kameng district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India; the primary focus is on the villages of Upper Dzang and Khellong near the Bichum river. Two main subgroupings have generally been identified as West (primarily Nafra circle, West Kameng district) and East (primarily Lada circle, East Kameng district), but phonological evidence suggests Janaching and Challan (although different from each other) constitute a third subgroup (see sec 2.2). There are three broad groupings in this dissertation: geographic, sociolinguistic, and cultural information (chp 2); methodology and data collection (chp 3); and an analysis of the Sajolang language (chp 4-chp 16). Chp 3 presents background information about the language, where it is spoken, and its speakers. Chp 2 describes how the language was recorded and with what equipment, as well as a look at previous literature which analyzed Sajolang. The remaining chapters (chp 4-chp 16) focus on individual areas of the language. The progression of these chapters follows the phonology-morphology- syntax approach common in grammars.