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Kingdom of Mankon : Aspects of History, Language, Culture, Flora and Fauna.
This book is a descriptive and documentary analysis of the Mankon I-language and E-language mirrored through aspects of history, geography, flora and fauna. These aspects manifest in the taxonomic nomenclatures attributed to referents in society. Because these referents were hitherto transmitted ora...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Langaa RPCIG,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Tables and Figures; Signs and sounds used in this book; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Mankon geographical location and history; 1.1. Origin of the word ""Mankon""; 1.2. Geographical setting; 1.3. Orgin and migration of the people; 1.4. The Mankon confederacy; 1.5. Mankon colonial contacts; 1.6. Migrant settlers in Mankon; Chapter Two: Mankon political, economic and social structure; 2.1. Mankon traditional rule; 2.2. Enstoolment; 2.3. Economy; 2.4. Social aspect; 2.5. Religion; 2.5.1. A ritual: from Ala'nkyi to Samni.
- 2.5.2. A brief history of Ala'nkyi2.5.3. The Nkyímali; 2.5.4. Back on the hill; 2.5.5. After Ala'nkyi; 2.5.6. The Musongong rite; 2.5.7. The Dance proper; 2.6. The Mankon language; Chapter Three: Mankon Phonology; 3.1. Phonetics; 3.1.1. Identification and classification of sounds; 3.1.2. Description of the sounds; 3.1.3. Position of sound occurrence in a word; 3.1.4. Comments; 3.1.5. Mankon alphabet; 3.2. Distinctive features: phonemes; 3.3. Phonemes vs. allophones; 3.4. Assimilation, elision and deletion; 3.5. A review of sound distribution; 3.5.1. C1 and C2 Consonants; 3.5.2. Vowels.
- 3.6. Vowel elision and deletion3.6.1. Elision; 3.6.2. Deletion; 3.7. Some Mankon morphophonemic rules; 3.7.1. Nouns; 3.7.2. Verbs; 3.8. Reduplication; 3.9. Morphological function of Mankon reduplicants; 3.10. Mankon phonotactics; 3.10.1 The concept of phonotactics; 3.10.2. Mankon syllabic structure; 3.11. Mankon tonology; 3.11.1. level tones; 3.11.2. Grammatical tones; 3.11.3. Super high tone; 3.11.4. Contour tones; 3.11.5. Some uses of tone; 3.12 Autosegmental phonology; Chapter Four: Mankon Orthography; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Orthographic principles; 4.3. Mankon tone ortography.
- 4.4. Ways of limiting tone marking in Mankon4.5. Orthographic Depth vs. Grain Size Theory; Chapter Five: Morphology; 5.1. The notion of morphology; 5.1.1. Derivational morpheme; 5.1.2. Inflectional morpheme / declension; 5.1.3. Free morpheme; 5.1.4. Bound morpheme; 5.1.5. Lexical Morpheme; 5.1.6. Functional morpheme; 5.1.7. Affixation; 5.2. Word formation; 5.2.1. Loaning / Borrowing; 5.2.2. Compounding; 5.2.3. Affixation; 5.3. Parts of speech / Word classes; 5.3.1. Nouns; 5.3.2. Quantifiers; 5.3.3. Partitives; 5.3.4. Articles; 5.3.5. Quantity: every, all, the whole.
- 5.3.6. Quantity: small, a little5.3.7. Quantity: much, a lot of, plenty of; 5.3.8. Quantity: enough; 5.3.9. Quantity: No, nothing; 5.4. Noun classes and pronouns; 5.5. Pronouns; 5.5.1. Nominative; 5.5.2. Accusative; 5.5.3. Dative; 5.5.4. Reflexive; 5.6. Noun agreement with adjectives; 5.7 Associative or genitive constructions; 5.7.1. Singular; 5.7.2. Plural; 5.8. Verbs; 5.9. Adverbs; 5.10. Preposition; 5.11. Negation; 5.12. Only; 5.13. Mood; 5.14. What / Which; 5.15. Colours; Chapter Six: The proverb in Mankon; 6.1 Purpose of study; 6.2. Methodology, data collection and analysis.