| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Mouton grammar library (MGL) ; 62 |
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Mouton grammar library ; 62.
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| Contents |
Grammatical sketch -- Segmental phonology -- Tone -- Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival morphology -- Nominal and adjectival compounds -- Noun phrase structure -- Ideophones and onomatopoeia -- Coordination -- Postpositions and adverbials -- Verbal derivation -- Verbal inflection -- VP and predicate structure -- Comparatives -- Focalization and interrogation -- Relativization and clause nominalization -- Conditional constructions -- Clause chaining and subordination -- Quotative constructions -- Anaphora -- Grammatical pragmatics -- Dialects -- Texts |
| Summary |
This volume provides the first full description of the grammatical structure of Tommo So, a language of Mali, West Africa. It is one of about twenty languages of the Dogon people, best known for their masked dances and distinctive cliff villages. Like most African languages, Tommo So is tonal and displays a rich system of grammatical tone, wherein the tonal realization of a word depends on its syntactic context. In addition to a grammatical description, this book offers a wide range of naturalistic texts, making it of value to linguists and anthropologists alike |
| Analysis |
Dogon |
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Linguistic Typology |
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Malian Languages |
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Text Linguistics |
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Tone Language |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Dogon language -- Grammar
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Dogon language -- Phonology
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- African Languages.
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Dogon language -- Grammar
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Tommo So
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Grammatik
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Dogon (taal)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110301076 |
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3110301075 |
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1306091721 |
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9781306091725 |
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