Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XX, 735 S.).
ISBN:
978-3-11-020722-4
,
978-3-11-020113-0
Series Statement:
Mouton Grammar Library 45
Note:
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
Language:
English
Keywords:
Jamsay
;
Grammatik
DOI:
10.1515/9783110207224
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
Author information:
Heath, Jeffrey 1949-
