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A grammar of Jamsay /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heath, Jeffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.
Colección:Mouton grammar library ; 45.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 735 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 721-727) and index.
ISBN:9783110207224
3110207222
1282196790
9781282196797