Heath A Grammar of Jamsay

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-020722-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 45, 755 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]ISSN

Jamsay is the largest-population language among some twenty Dogon languages in Mali, West Africa. This is the first comprehensive grammar of any Dogon language, including a full tonology. The language is verb-final, with subject agreement on the verb and with no other case-marking. Its most striking feature is the morphosyntactically triggered use of stem-wide tone-contour overlays on nouns, verbs, and adjectives. All stems have a lexical tone contour such as H[igh], L[ow]-H, HL, or LHL with at least one H-tone. An exam of tone overlay is tone-dropping to stem-wide all-L. This is used for Perfective verbs (in the presence of a focalized constituent), and for a noun or adjective before an adjective. It is also used to mark the head NP in a relative clause (the head NP is not extracted, so this is the only direct indication of head NP status). The verb in a relative clause is morphologically a participle, agreeing with the head NP in humanness and number, rather than with the subject. "Intonation" is used grammatically. For example, NP conjunction 'X and Y' is expressed as X Y, without a conjunction, but with "dying-quail" intonation on both conjuncts.

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguist

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heath, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;1 Introduction;23
4;2 Sketch;29
5;3 Phonology;47
6;4 Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival morphology;162
7;5 Nominal and adjectival compounds;213
8;6 Noun phrase structure;246
9;7 Coordination;288
10;8 Postpositions and adverbials;304
11;9 Verbal derivation;346
12;10 Verbal inflection;363
13;11 VP and predicate structure;408
14;12 Comparatives;465
15;13 Focalization and interrogation;476
16;14 Relativization;501
17;15 Verb (VP) chaining and adverbial clauses;542
18;16 Conditional constructions;598
19;17 Complement and purposive clauses;609
20;18 Anaphora;664
21;19 Grammatical pragmatics;686
22;20 Dialects;707
23;Backmatter;717

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Heath, University of Michigan, USA.