Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 666 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1259 g
Reihe: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages / Africa
A Nilo-Saharan Language of Ethiopia
Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 666 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1259 g
Reihe: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages / Africa
ISBN: 978-90-04-44989-3
Verlag: Brill
Mursi is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by a small group of people who live in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, and is one of the most endangered languages of the country.
Based on the fieldwork that the author conducted in beautiful villages of the Mursi community, this descriptive grammar is organized into fourteen chapters rich in examples and an appendix containing four transcribed texts. The readers are thus provided with a clear and useful tool, which constitutes and important addition to our knowledge of Mursi and of other related languages spoken in the area.
Besides being an empirical data source for linguists interested in typology and endangered language description and documentation, the grammar constitutes an invaluable gift to the speech community.
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Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
List of Tables, Maps, Diagrams, and Figures
Abbreviations and Conventions
1 Introduction
1.1 The Mursi People: Historical Background
1.2 Linguistic Profile of Mursi
1.3 Geography and Mursi Neighbours
1.4 Economy and Subsistence
1.5 Traditional Leadership
1.6 Local Groups, Clans, Kinship System and Age Sets
1.7 Major Traditional Practices
1.8 Cattle, Color Terms and Naming
1.9 Linguistic Affiliation
1.10 Sociolinguistic Situation
1.11 Previous Studies; Ethnographic Exploration in the Lower Omo Valley
1.12 Fieldwork Methodology and Language Data
2 Phonology
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Notes on Orthography and Phonetic Transcriptions
2.3 Inventory of Phonemes
2.4 Syllable Structure
2.5 Phonological Processes
2.6 Tone
2.7 Wordhood
2.8 Clitics
2.9 Special Phonology
2.10 Female Register
3 Word Classes
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Open Word Classes
3.3 Closed Word Classes
4 Noun Phrase Structure
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Non-clausal Modifiers of NP
4.3 Clausal Modifiers
4.4 Nominalizers
4.5 Complex Modification
4.6 Summary of Head-Modifier Dependency Relation
5 Possession
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Juxtaposed System
5.3 Possessive Construction with A and B Possessors
5.4 Possessive Construction with C-type (Possessive Pronouns)
5.5 Pertensive
5.6 Noun Modification Constructions
5.7 Predicative Possessive Construction
5.8 Summary
6 Number
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Realization of Number
6.3 Suffixation
6.4 Suppletion
6.5 Number Marking by Tone
6.6 n/g Alternation
6.7 The Bound Number/Aspect Marking Forms -t/-?
6.8 Additional Suffixes
6.9 Number-Determined Suppletive Verb Forms
6.10 Reduplication
6.11 Number Words
6.12 Number and Agreement
7 The Verb and Predicate Structure
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Phonological Properties of Verb Roots
7.3 Morphological Properties
8 Adjectives
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Phonological Properties of Adjectives
8.3 Morphological Properties of Adjectives
8.4 Syntactic Properties
8.5 Semantic Properties
8.6 Summary
9 Valency Changing Operations
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Valency Decreasing Derivations
9.3 Valency-Increasing Derivations
10 Grammatical Relations
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Constituent Order
10.3 Case Markers
10.4 Adpositions
10.5 Verb-Final Suffix
11 Comparative Constructions
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Mono-clausal Comparative Construction
11.3 Phrasal plus Mono-clausal Construction
11.4 Bi-clausal Construction Type I
11.5 Bi-clausal Construction Type II
11.6 ?á Construction
11.7 Other Types of Comparative Constructions
11.8 Equality Construction
12 Questions
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Content Questions
12.3 Non-interrogative Particles
12.4 Tag Questions
12.5 Polar Questions
12.6 Other Question Strategies
13 Negation
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Bound Negators
13.3 Negating a Copula Clause
13.4 Negative Existential Verb ní?? ‘Not Present’
13.5 Inherently Negative Verb ímág
13.6 Indefinite-Like Words
13.7 Interjection ?mm ?mm ‘no’
13.8 Tracing and Linking Negators
14 Clause Types, Clause Combining and Coordination
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Clause Types
14.3 Clause Coordination
Appendix: Transcribed Texts
Bibliography
Subject Index
