A Grammar of Giziga
Title | A Grammar of Giziga PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Shay |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2021-01-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004445978 |
This is the first broad, detailed grammar of the Giziga language, which belongs to the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family and is spoken in parts of the Far North Region of the Republic of Cameroon.
A Grammar of Wandala
Title | A Grammar of Wandala PDF eBook |
Author | Zygmunt Frajzyngier |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 736 |
Release | 2012-05-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110218410 |
Wandala is a hitherto undescribed Central Chadic language spoken in Northern Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria. The Grammar of Wandala describes, in a non-aprioristic approach, phonology, morphology, syntax, and all functional domains grammaticalized in the language. The grammatical structure of Wandala is quite different from the structure of other Chadic languages described thus far in both the formal means and the functions that have been grammaticalized. The grammar provides proofs for the postulated hypotheses concerning forms and functions. The grammar is written in a style accessible to linguists working within different theoretical frameworks. The phonology is characterized by a rich consonantal system, a three vowel system, and a two tone system. The language has abundant vowel insertion rules and a vowel harmony system. Vowel deletion marks phrase-internal position, and vowel-insertion marks phrase-final position. The two rules allow the parsing of the clause into constituents. The language has three types of reduplication of verbs, two of which code aspectual and modal distinctions. The negative paradigms of verbs differ from affirmative paradigms in the coding of subject. The pronominal affixes and extensive system of verbal extensions code the grammatical and semantic relations within the clause. Wandala has unusual clausal structure, in that in a pragmatically neutral verbal clause, there is only one nominal argument, either the subject or the object. These arguments can follow a variety of constituents. The grammatical role of that argument is coded by inflectional markers on the verb and most interestingly, on whatever lexical or grammatical morpheme precedes the constituent. The markers of grammatical relations added to verbs are different for different classes of verbs.
A Grammar of Lopit
Title | A Grammar of Lopit PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Moodie |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2020-09-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004430679 |
In A Grammar of Lopit, Jonathan Moodie and Rosey Billington provide a detailed description of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language traditionally spoken in the Lopit Mountains in South Sudan.
A Grammar of Makary Kotoko
Title | A Grammar of Makary Kotoko PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Allison |
Publisher | Grammars and Sketches of the W |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789004422513 |
"In A Grammar of Makary Kotoko, Sean Allison provides a thorough description and analysis of Makary Kotoko - a Central Chadic language of Cameroon, framing the discussion within R.M.W. Dixon's (2010a, 2010b, 2012) Basic Linguistic Theory. Working with an extensive corpus of recorded texts supplemented by interactions with native speakers of the language, the author provides the first full grammar of a Kotoko language. The detailed analysis of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse features of Makary Kotoko is from a functional/typological perspective. Being based on a large number of oral texts, the analysis provides an example-rich description showing the range of variation of the constructions presented while giving insights into Kotoko culture"--
A Grammar of Mursi
Title | A Grammar of Mursi PDF eBook |
Author | Firew Girma Worku |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 684 |
Release | 2021-03-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004449914 |
This volume contains 14 descriptive chapters and a collection of 4 transcribed texts in Mursi, a highly endangered language spoken in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia.
A Grammar of Pévé
Title | A Grammar of Pévé PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Shay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Cameroon |
ISBN | 9789004409156 |
A Grammar of Pévé describes and examines a wide range of linguistic forms and functions found in Pévé, a Chadic language spoken in parts of the Republic of Chad and the Republic of Cameroon.
Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) Language and Culture
Title | Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) Language and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | James Essegbey |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2019-07-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004396993 |
This is the first comprehensive description of Tutrugbu(Nyangbo-nyb), a Ghana Togo Mountain(gtm) language of the Kwa family. It is based on a documentary corpus of different genre of linguistic and cultural practices gathered during periods of immersion fieldwork. Tutrugbu speakers are almost all bilingual in Ewe, another Kwa language. The book presents innovative analyses of phenomena like Advanced Tongue Root and labial vowel harmony, noun classes, topological relational verbs, the two classes of adpositions, obligatory complement verbs, multi-verbs in a single clause, and information structure. This grammar is unparalleled in including a characterization of culturally defined activity types and their associated speech formulae and routine strategies. It should appeal to linguists interested in African languages, language documentation and typology.