Konnerth, LindaMorey, StephenTeo, Amos2019-01-302019-01-30http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155280This is the eighth volume of North East Indian Linguistics, a series of volumes for publishing current research on the languages of North East India, the first volume of which was published in 2008. The papers in this volume were presented at the 9th conference of the North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS), held at Tezpur University in February 2016. The papers for this anniversary volume continue the NEILS tradition of research by both local and international scholars on a wide range of languages and topics. This eighth volume includes papers on small community languages and large regional languages from across North East India, and present detailed phonological, semantic and morphosyntactic studies of structures that are characteristic of particular languages or language groups alongside sociolinguistic studies that explore language attitudes in contexts of language shift.1 vol.application/pdfen-AUAuthor/s retain copyrighthttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.02018Released under Creative Commons License (Attribution 4.0 International)