Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
2009
ISBN:
9783110207224
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 Perf
Content:
This is the first complete grammar of any of the twenty or so Dogon languages of Mali, West Africa. Its most interesting features are the systematic use of stem-wide tone contour overlays, and of intonational effects, for grammatical purposes, for example, marking the head NP of a relative clause, and expressing 'X and Y' coordination.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110201135
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Heath, Jeffrey, 1949 - A grammar of Jamsay Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2008 ISBN 9783110201130
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Jamsay
;
Grammatik
DOI:
10.1515/9783110207224
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