A grammar of Lopit : : an eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan / / by Jonathan Moodie, Rosey Billington.

• Superior document: Grammars and sketches of the World's languages. Africa ; Volume 11
• VerfasserIn: Moodie, Jonathan,; Billington, Rosey,
• TeilnehmendeR: Billington, Rosey,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Grammars and sketches of the World's languages. Africa ; Volume 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In A Grammar of Lopit , Jonathan Moodie and Rosey Billington provide the first detailed description of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language traditionally spoken in the Lopit Mountains in South Sudan. Drawing on extensive primary data, the authors describe the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the L...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures and Tables
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Overview
• 1.2 The Lopit People
• 1.3 The Lopit Language
• 1.4 Approaches to Documenting Lopit
• 2 Phonology
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Consonants
• 2.3 Vowels
• 2.4 Tone
• 2.5 Phonotactics
• 2.6 Orthography
• 3 Word Classes
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Open Word Classes
• 3.3 Other Word Classes
• 4 The Noun Phrase
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Gender
• 4.3 Number
• 4.4 Case Inflections Marked on the Noun Phrase
• 4.5 Verbal Nominalisation
• 4.6 Nominal Specifiers and Modifiers
• 4.7 Prepositional Phrases
• 4.8 Constituent Order in the Noun Phrase
• 5 The Verb: Overview
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Key Features of the Verb
• 5.3 Subject and Object Marking
• 5.4 Verb Derivational Marking
• 6 Aspect and Modality
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Temporal Reference
• 6.3 Aspect
• 6.4 Modality
• 6.5 Imperatives and Hortatives
• 7 Basic Sentence Structure
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Word Order of the Simple Sentence
• 7.3 Grammatical Relations and Case Systems
• 7.4 Transitivity and Valency
• 7.5 Reflexives and Reciprocals
• 7.6 Predicate Nominals and Related Constructions
• 7.7 Interrogative
• 7.8 Negation
• 8 Property Concepts and Adverbial Notions
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Property Concepts
• 8.3 Adverbial Notions
• 9 Clause Combining Constructions
• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 Coordinating Clauses
• 9.3 Comitative Coordination and Inclusory Constructions
• 9.4 Complement Clauses and Complementation
• 9.5 Relative Clauses
• 9.6 Adverbial Clauses
• 9.7 Conditional Clauses
• Appendix 1: Swadesh List for Lopit
• Appendix 2: Lopit Narratives
• Appendix 3: Data Citation for Chapter 2 (Phonology)
• References
• Index.