A Grammar of Jamsay / / Jeffrey Heath.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (735 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Sketch
- 3 Phonology
- 4 Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival
- morphology
- 5 Nominal and adjectival compounds
- 6 Noun phrase structure
- 7 Coordination
- 8 Postpositions and adverbials
- 9 Verbal derivation
- 10 Verbal inflection
- 11 VP and predicate structure
- 12 Comparatives
- 13 Focalization and interrogation
- 14 Relativization
- 15 Verb (VP) chaining and adverbial clauses
- 16 Conditional constructions
- 17 Complement and purposive clauses
- 18 Anaphora
- 19 Grammatical pragmatics
- 20 Dialects
- Backmatter