A Grammar of Galo

nominalizers derive forms which are generally translated by periphrastic combinations of abstract noun plus some form of verbal modifier in English; interestingly, however, the Galo forms have no attested counterpart abstract noun forms. In effect, this means that it is not possible to refer to abstract concepts such as ‘time’ or ‘manner’ in Galo in absence of a corresponding event or state concept such as ‘of eating’ or ‘of going’. In the course of my research, I have noticed a distinct tendency for highly-educated speakers – of which there are many – to use Indo-European abstract nominals such as the Assamese-derived form homói ‘time’ together with Galo periphrastics, as in dó-nàm homói ‘eat-NZR:RLS time’ ‘dinner/eating time(

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