A Grammar of Prinmi; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Maps; Photographs; Chapter One: Introduction; 1.1. The Pǔmǐ people: a brief ethnography; 1.1.1. Origin and history of migration; 1.1.2. Religion; 1.1.3. Relations with other minority nationalities; 1.1.4. Multilingualism and language attitude; 1.2. Overview of the Prinmi language; 1.2.1. Previous work; 1.2.2. Genetic affiliation and varieties of the language; 1.2.3. Typological profile; 1.3. Fieldwork settings; 1.3.1. The community; 1.3.2. Consultants and data
2.4.1. Syllable structure2.4.2. Phonotactics; 2.5. Segmental changes; 2.5.1. Changes in vowels; 2.5.1.1. Centralization of vowels; 2.5.1.2. Vowel fusion; 2.5.1.3. Nasalization; 2.5.1.4. Glide epenthesis; 2.5.1.5. Trill substitution; 2.5.2. Changes in consonants; 2.5.2.1. Voicing/Aspiration change; 2.5.2.2. Glottaling; 2.5.2.3. Change of voiceless nasals; Chapter Three: The Suprasegmentals; 3.1. Surface tones on monosyllabic words; 3.2. Tones of polysyllabic words; 3.2.1. Disyllabic words; 3.2.2. Trisyllabic words; 3.2.3. Tetrasyllabic words; 3.3. The phonological system of tone
3.3.1. The melody-tone system3.3.2. Extra-prosodicality; 3.4. Suprasegmental changes; 3.4.1. Regular tone change in clitic groups; 3.4.2. Tone change in prefixed verbs; 3.4.3. Tone change in reduplication; 3.4.4. Tone change in compounds; 3.4.5. Tone change in numeral-classifier compounds; 3.4.6. Tone change under the influence of intonation; Chapter Four: Lexical Categories; 4.1. Relation between lexical categories: an overlapping approach; 4.2. Open lexical categories; 4.2.1. Verbs; 4.2.2. Nouns; 4.2.3. Adjectives; 4.2.4. Overlap among open lexical categories; 4.3. Closed lexical categories
Summary
In A Grammar of Prinmi Picus Ding provides the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Pumi Nationality and the Zàng Nationality in southwest China. Prinmi is closely related to the extinct language of Tangut
