A Grammar of Goemai / / Birgit Hellwig.

This is the first description of Goemai, a West Chadic language of Nigeria. Goemai is spoken in a language contact area, and this contact has shaped Goemai grammar to the extent that it can be considered a fairly untypical Chadic language. The grammar presents the structure of the present-day langua...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 51
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Physical Description:1 online resource (596 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of contents
  • List of tables, figures and maps
  • Abbreviations and Conventions
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Phonology and tonology
  • Chapter 3 Nouns and the noun phrase
  • Chapter 4 Verbs and the verb phrase
  • Chapter 5 Adverbial phrases
  • Chapter 6 Closed word classes and other parts of speech
  • Chapter 7 Tense, aspect, modality (TAM)
  • Chapter 8 Clause types
  • Appendix 1 Text collection
  • Appendix 2 Wordlist
  • References
  • Index