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A grammar of Tommo So /

This volume provides the first full description of the grammatical structure of Tommo So, a language of Mali, West Africa. It is one of about twenty languages of the Dogon people, best known for their masked dances and distinctive cliff villages. Like most African languages, Tommo So is tonal and di...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McPherson, Laura E. (Laura Elizabeth) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]
Colección:Mouton grammar library ; 62.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Grammatical sketch
  • Segmental phonology
  • Tone
  • Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival morphology
  • Nominal and adjectival compounds
  • Noun phrase structure
  • Ideophones and onomatopoeia
  • Coordination
  • Postpositions and adverbials
  • Verbal derivation
  • Verbal inflection
  • VP and predicate structure
  • Comparatives
  • Focalization and interrogation
  • Relativization and clause nominalization
  • Conditional constructions
  • Clause chaining and subordination
  • Quotative constructions
  • Anaphora
  • Grammatical pragmatics
  • Dialects
  • Texts.