A Grammar of Jamsay
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Berlin [u.a.]
Mouton de Gruyter
2008
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| Schriftenreihe: | Mouton Grammar Library
45 |
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| Beschreibung: | 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 Perf |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 735 S.) |
| ISBN: | 9783110207224 9783110201130 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110207224 |