A grammar of Giziga : : a Chadic language of far north Cameroon / / by Erin Shay.
"This is the first broad, detailed grammar of the Giziga language, which belongs to the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. The language is spoken in parts of the Far North Region of the Republic of Cameroon and can be divided into two dialects, Giziga and Northern Giziga, with a...
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Superior document: | Grammars and sketches of the world's languages. Africa |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Grammars and sketches of the World's languages. Africa.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 382 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- The Giziga Language
- Phonology
- Verbs
- Nouns, Pronouns and Noun Phrases
- Coding Grammatical Relations
- Coding Semantic Relations
- Tense and Aspect
- Marking the End of the Event
- Modality
- Locative Predication
- Verbless Clauses
- System of Reference
- Interrogatives
- Negative Predication
- Topics and Topicalization
- Contrastive Focus
- Conjoining Clauses
- Complement Clauses
- Relative Clauses
- Conditional and Temporal Constructions
- Complementation
- Coding Purpose and Reason
- Comparative Constructions
- Adjuncts
- Sample Texts
- Appendix 1: A Compilation of Tables
- Appendix 2: A Summary of Morphological Forms and Functions
- Giziga-English Lexicon
- English-Giziga Lexicon.