A Grammar of Emai / / Francis O. Egbokhare, Ronald P. Schaefer.
This reference grammar is the first ever description of West Africa’s Edoid language Emai. It incorporates narrative, lexical and grammatical field results over the last three decades. Treated are morphology, syntax and argument structure after an introductory phonology and orthographic overview hig...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXV, 994 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Map
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Tables
- 1 Orthography and grammatical overview
- 2 Morphology
- 3 Inflection, auxiliaries and preverbs
- 4 Noun modifiers
- 5 Pronouns and conjunction
- 6 Adverbial adjuncts
- 7 Noncanonical constructions
- 8 Be, do, happen and have
- 9 Postverbal particles in complex predicates
- 10 Participant expressing complex predicates
- 11 Aspect expressing complex predicates
- 12 Transitivity and verb arguments
- 13 Embedded S- and VP-complements
- 14 Multi-clause constructions
- 15 Sample oral narrative
- Bibliography
- Subject Index