A Grammar of Fongbe / / Anne-Marie Brousseau, Claire Lefebvre.

This book is a reference grammar of Fongbe, a language which is part of the Gbe dialect cluster. It is spoken mainly in the former kingdom of Dahomey, which today comprises the southern areas of Benin and Togo. This book has three objectives: First, its main purpose is to provide a thorough descript...

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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]
©2002
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 25
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Physical Description:1 online resource (582 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • I-XXIV
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Overview of the phonology
  • Part I Functional categories
  • 3. Functional categories involved in the nominal structure
  • 4. Pronominal forms
  • 5. Tense, mood and aspect
  • 6. Functional categories involved in the structure of the clause
  • 7. Clause structures
  • Part II Lexical categories
  • 8. Morphology
  • 9. Compounds
  • 10. Verbs
  • 11. Prepositions and postpositions
  • 12. Modifiers
  • Part III The major syntactic constructions of the language
  • 13. Serial verbs
  • 14. The double object construction
  • 15. The definite determiner in simple clauses
  • 16. The so-called verb-doubling phenomena
  • Appendices
  • Appendix I: Swadesh list
  • Appendix II: Text
  • Appendix III: Additional data on d̨ɔ́ introducing complements of verbs of the SAY-class
  • Appendix IV: A sample of idiomatic verbal expressions
  • References
  • Index of authors
  • Index of subjects