A Grammar of Seenku /

A Grammar of Seenku / / Laura McPherson.

Seenku is a Western Mande language of the Samogo group spoken in southwestern Burkina Faso by approximately 17,000 speakers. It has undergone a lot of phonological reduction, leading to a rich segmental and tonal phoneme inventory but mainly mono- and sesquisyllabic roots. The language has four cont...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2020 Part 1
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McPherson, Laura,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 83
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XX, 572 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Sketch of the grammar
  • 3 Segmental phonology
  • 4 Tone
  • 5 Nominal morphology
  • 6 Pronouns and anaphora
  • 7 Compound nouns
  • 8 Noun phrase structure
  • 9 Ideophones and onomatopoeia
  • 10 Postpositions and adverbials
  • 11 Coordination
  • 12 Verb stems and verbal derivation
  • 13 Verbal inflection
  • 14 Non-verbal predicates
  • 15 Comparatives
  • 16 Interrogation
  • 17 Relative clauses
  • 18 Conditional constructions
  • 19 Complement and purposive clauses
  • 20 Clause coordination and event sequencing
  • 21 Information structure and discourse
  • 22 Artistic adaptation of language
  • 23 Texts
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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