UID:
edocfu_9959241691102883
Format:
1 online resource (760 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-19679-0
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9786612196799
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3-11-020722-2
Series Statement:
Mouton grammar library ; 45
Content:
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 Perfective verbs (in the presence of a focalized constituent), and for a noun or adjective before an adjective. It is also used to mark the head NP in a relative clause (the head NP is not extracted, so this is the only direct indication of head NP status). The verb in a relative clause is morphologically a participle, agreeing with the head NP in humanness and number, rather than with the subject. "Intonation" is used grammatically. For example, NP conjunction 'X and Y' is expressed as X Y, without a conjunction, but with "dying-quail" intonation on both conjuncts.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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1 Introduction --
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2 Sketch --
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3 Phonology --
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4 Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival morphology --
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5 Nominal and adjectival compounds --
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6 Noun phrase structure --
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7 Coordination --
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8 Postpositions and adverbials --
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9 Verbal derivation --
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10 Verbal inflection --
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11 VP and predicate structure --
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12 Comparatives --
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13 Focalization and interrogation --
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14 Relativization --
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15 Verb (VP) chaining and adverbial clauses --
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16 Conditional constructions --
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17 Complement and purposive clauses --
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18 Anaphora --
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19 Grammatical pragmatics --
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20 Dialects --
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Backmatter
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-020113-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783110207224
