Somali Grammar / / Christopher R. Green; ed. by Nicola Lampitelli, Evan Jones.

This book offers a contemporary look at Somali from the standpoint of its major varieties and provides a comprehensive account of the language that is grounded in linguistic theory and the latest scholarship. The grammar includes an extensive array of examples drawn from online corpora and from fiel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Mouton-CASL Grammar Series [MCASL] ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXVIII, 474 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Series Editors’ Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Orthography
  • 3 Segmental Phonology
  • 4 Syllable structure and phonotactics
  • 5 Tone
  • 6 Nominal morphology
  • 7 Verbs and verbal morphology
  • 8 Compounds
  • 9 The noun phrase
  • 10 The Verb Complex
  • 11 Focus markers
  • 12 Main clauses without focus marking
  • 13 Information structure
  • 14 Subordination
  • 15 Coordination and other adverbials
  • 16 Questions
  • A Appendix - Suffixing verb paradigms
  • Bibliography
  • Index