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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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, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 62
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Physical Description:1 online resource (622 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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