Devi Waikhom Kunjalata. A Descriptive Grammar of Sadu Koireng

Manipur University, 2013. — 315 p.This thesis presents a descriptive grammar of Sadu Koireng, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken 30 kilometres away from Imphal at Senapati district of Manipur.
This thesis is important from two angles: the work will help develop the grammar of the language. As the language is spoken by numerically very few people, it is very important that the language needs to be documented. It has no printed texts worthy of being analysed linguistically. The Sadu Koireng language has not been introduced yet for teaching in any government educational institute.
This thesis consist of six chapters: The first chapter provides a basic introduction to the Sadu Koireng language and people. Chapter two examines the phonology. Chapter three discusses the morphological processes of the Sadu Koireng language. Chapter four provides analyses about the lexical and grammatical categories of the language. It includes nouns and categories of nouns, pronouns and their classification, pronominal prefixes, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, gender, number, case, etc. Chapter five describes the different types of functional sentences. They are: declarative, negative, exclamatory, imperative, optative, interrogative and reduplication. The sixth and last chapter gives an overall summary of what have been discussed in the previous chapters.