A Grammar of Ma'di / / Mairi Blackings, Nigel Fabb.
This grammar provides one of the most detailed accounts available of the syntax of a Nilo-Saharan language. It fully describes some of the unusual characteristics of Ma'di, including the different word orders associated with different tenses, the particle-based modal and focus systems, the full...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (734 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- I-XVI
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 An overview of Ma'di
- Chapter 3 Phonetics
- Chapter 4 Phonology and morphology
- Chapter 5 Verbs
- Chapter 6 Other word classes
- Chapter 7 The uninflected verb
- Chapter 8 The inflected verb
- Chapter 9 The directive verb
- Chapter 10 Suffixed subordinate verbs
- Chapter 11 Sentences with nonverbal predicates
- Chapter 12 Noun phrases
- Chapter 13 Modification of the noun (including possession)
- Chapter 14 Nonsingular noun phrases
- Chapter 15 Postposition phrases and other location expressions
- Chapter 16 Verbs and clausal complements
- Chapter 17 Modals and negation
- Chapter 18 Adverbials
- Chapter 19 Focus and Information structure
- Chapter 20 Questions
- Chapter 21 Lexicon
- Chapter 22 Texts
- References
- Index