A Grammar of Dazaga

XV, 221 Pp, Index Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-31558-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Dänisch, Band 3, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages / Africa

In A Grammar of Dazaga, Josiah Walters provides the first detailed description and analysis of Dazaga (a Saharan language) in the past half-century. Based on a review of previous work on Dazaga, and with his own more recent data, the author describes the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Dazaga. He provides a new analysis of the categorization of verbs in to classes, demonstrating the prominence of light verb constructions in Dazaga. His analysis of the syntax brings to light several striking features of Dazaga, including optional ergative case marking, mixed alignment of objects, a variety of causative constructions, and verb serialization. Throughout the work, the author relates his findings to work on related languages and to recent typological studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walters, Josiah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction
1.1 The Daza People and the Dazaga Lanuage
1.2 Objectives and Methodology of the Present Study
1.3 Typological Sketch of Dazaga
1.4 Explanation of Certain Conventions

2 Literature Review
2.1 Early Minor Works
2.2 The Major Works
2.3 Recent Minor Works

3 Phonology
3.1 Consonant Phonemes
3.2 Vowel Phonemes
3.3 Syllable and Word Structure
3.4 Tone
3.5 Vowel Harmony
3.6 Other Phonological Processes
3.7 Orthography

4 Nouns and Phrase Constituents
4.1 Syntactic Categories Found in Noun Phrases
4.2 Structure of Noun Phrases

5 Verbs
5.1 Verb Classes
5.2 Subject & Object Agreement
5.3 Agreement Morphology of Transitive Verbs
5.5 Agreement Morphology of Intransitive Verbs
5.6 Aspects
5.7 Mood
5.8 Voice
5.9 Suppletive Verb Roots

6 Structure of the Simple Clause
6.1 Mino Class Consituents
6.2 Case Markers
6.3 Basic Verbal Clauses
6.4 Non-Verbal Predicates

7 Sentence Types
7.1 (Indicative) Declarative
7.2 Pro-Sentences
7.3 Negation
7.4 Imperatives, Hortatives, and Optatives
7.5 Interrogatives
7.6 Marked Topic (Left-Dislocation)
7.7 Focus

8 Clause Combinations
8.1 Coordination
8.2 Subordination
8.3 Serial Verb Constructions

9 Conclusion
9.1 Typologically Unusual Features of Dazaga
9.2 Areas for Further Research

Appendix: Supplemental Text and Sentences
References
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Josiah Walters completed his M.A. (2015) in Applied Linguistics at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (Dallas, TX).