A Grammar of Koyra Chiini : The Songhay of Timbuktu
Jeffrey. Heath
Bok Engelsk 1999 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Berlin : : De Gruyter, , 1999.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (472 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Abbreviations; Map; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Generalities about Songhay; 1.2 History and geography; 1.3 Format of grammar; 1.4 Transcriptional conventions; 1.5 Literature review; 1.6 Acknowledgements; 2 Overview; 2.1 Brief outline of typical sentence and NP structures; 2.2 Distinctive features of Koyra Chiini; 2.3 Internal variation within Koyra Chiini; 3 Phonology; 3.1 Consonants; 3.2 Oral vowels; 3.3 Diphthongs; 3.4 Nasalized vowels and word-final nasal consonants; 3.5 Syllabification; 3.6 Consonantal assimilations and deletions; 3.7 Vocalic contraction, deletion, shortening, and lengthening. - 11 Semantic topics11.1 Spatiotemporal structures; 11.2 Weather and ambient condition; 11.3 Perception; 11.4 Emotion and personality; 11.5 Kinship; 11.6 Flora-fauna; 11.7 Body parts; Appendix 1 Upriver dialects; Appendix 2 Djenné Chiini; Text; References; Morpheme Index; Subject Index. - 3.8 Minor phonological alternations3.9 Prosodics; 3.10 Historical phonological notes; 4 Nouns, pronouns, and nominal derivation; 4.1 Personal pronouns; 4.2 Demonstratives; 4.3 Nominalizations; 4.4 Morphology of adjectives; 4.5 Quantificational adjectives; 4.6 Nominal compounds; 4.7 Reduplication of noun and adjective stems; 5 Nominal inflection and NP syntax; 5.1 Overview; 5.2 Possessives; 5.3 Adjectives; 5.4 Numerals and other quantifiers; 5.5 Demonstrative woo; 5.6 Definite di; 5.7 Plural yo; 5.8 Markers of discourse status; 5.9 Adpositions and case-marking; 5.10 Apposition. - 5.11 Instrumental, comitative, and conjoined NPs5.12 Locational Phrases and Temporal Phrases; 6 Verbal voice and verb derivation; 6.1 Subcategorization for objects and adpositional phrases; 6.2 Derived voice forms; 6.3 Compounds; 6.4 Verb-stem reduplication; 7 VP structure; 7.1 Types of predicates; 7.2 Mood-aspect-negation (MAN); 7.3 Imperatives; 8 Discourse-functional constructions and relativization; 8.1 Focus constructions; 8.2 Questions and answers; 8.3 Relative clause constructions; 8.4 Topic constructions; 8.5 Emphatics and similatives. - 8.6 Co-occurrence of major discourse-functional categories9 Sentence-level syntax and semantics; 9.1 Object NPs and other postverbal constituents; 9.2 Adjectival intensifying interjections; 9.3 Operators and scope; 9.4 Overview of complement clause types; 9.5 Clause conjunction and indicative complement clauses; 9.6 Subjunctive complements; 9.7 Infinitival VPs and serial verbs; 10 Anaphora, logophorics, and reported speech; 10.1 Reported speech and logophoric pronouns; 10.2 Reflexives and reciprocals; 10.3 Generic and indefinite reference; 10.4 Sloppy (partial) coreferentiality
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| ISBN | 3110162857
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