A Grammar of Tommo So / / Laura McPherson.
Tommo So is a Dogon language with approximately 60,000 speakers in Mali, West Africa. As only the second full grammatical description of a Dogon language, this volume is a critical resource for solving the mystery of Dogon's genetic affiliation with other languages in Africa. Tommo So is an SOV...
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McPherson, Laura, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Grammar of Tommo So / Laura McPherson. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (622 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 0933-7636 ; 62 Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical sketch -- 3. Segmental phonology -- 4. Tone -- 5. Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival morphology -- 6. Nominal and adjectival compounds -- 7. Noun phrase structure -- 8. Ideophones and onomatopoeia -- 9. Coordination -- 10. Postpositions and adverbials -- 11. Verbal derivation -- 12. Verbal inflection -- 13. VP and predicate structure -- 14. Comparatives -- 15. Focalization and interrogation -- 16. Relativization and clause nominalization -- 17. Conditional constructions -- 18. Clause chaining and subordination -- 19. Quotative constructions -- 20. Anaphora -- 21. Grammatical pragmatics -- 22. Dialects -- 23. Texts -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Tommo So is a Dogon language with approximately 60,000 speakers in Mali, West Africa. As only the second full grammatical description of a Dogon language, this volume is a critical resource for solving the mystery of Dogon's genetic affiliation with other languages in Africa. Tommo So is an SOV language with isolating nominal morphology and agglutinative verbal morphology; suffixes on the verb mark tense/aspect/negation as well as subject agreement. The phonology is sensitive to levels of verbal morphology in that variable vowel harmony applies less frequently as one moves to outer layers of the morphology. The tone system of Tommo So is of typological interest in both its phonological and syntactic instantiations. Phonologically, it is a two-tone system of H and L, but these specified tones contrast with a surface-underspecified tone. Grammatically, the lexical tone of a word is often overwritten by syntactically-induced overlays. For example, an inalienable noun's tone will be replaced with L if it is possessed by a non-pronominal possessor, and by either H or HL if the possessor is pronominal. The language has also innovated a series of locative quasi-verbs and focus particles sensitive to pragmatic factors like certainty. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023) Dogon language Grammar. Dogon language Phonology. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. bisacsh Dogon. Linguistic Typology. Malian Languages. Text Linguistics. Tone Language. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 9783110238570 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Linguistics and Semiotics 2000-2014 (EN) 9783110238457 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014 9783110636970 ZDB-23-DLS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton Backlist 2000-2015 9783110742961 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013 9783110317350 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 2013 9783110317244 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET LINGUISTIK 2013 9783110317237 ZDB-23-DSP print 9783110300925 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110301076 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110301076 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110301076/original |
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