| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 735 pages) |
| Series |
Mouton grammar library ; 45 |
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Mouton grammar library ; 45.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Sketch; 3 Phonology; 4 Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival morphology; 5 Nominal and adjectival compounds; 6 Noun phrase structure; 7 Coordination; 8 Postpositions and adverbials; 9 Verbal derivation; 10 Verbal inflection; 11 VP and predicate structure; 12 Comparatives; 13 Focalization and interrogation; 14 Relativization; 15 Verb (VP) chaining and adverbial clauses; 16 Conditional constructions; 17 Complement and purposive clauses; 18 Anaphora; 19 Grammatical pragmatics; 20 Dialects; Backmatter |
| Summary |
Jamsay is the largest-population language among some twenty Dogon languages in Mali, West Africa. This is the first comprehensive grammar of any Dogon language, including a full tonology. The language is verb-final, with subject agreement on the verb and with no other case-marking. Its most striking feature is the morphosyntactically triggered use of stem-wide tone-contour overlays on nouns, verbs, and adjectives. All stems have a lexical tone contour such as H[igh], L[ow]-H, HL, or LHL with at least one H-tone. An exam of tone overlay is tone-dropping to stem-wide all-L. This is used for Perf |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 721-727) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jamsay dialect -- Grammar
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- African Languages.
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Grammatik
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Jamsay.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110207224 |
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3110207222 |
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1282196790 |
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9781282196797 |
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