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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Sketch; 3 Phonology; 4 Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival morphology; 5 Nominal and adjectival compounds; 6 Noun phrase structure; 7 Coordination; 8 Postpositions and adverbials; 9 Verbal derivation; 10 Verbal inflection; 11 VP and predicate structure; 12 Comparatives; 13 Focalization and interrogation; 14 Relativization; 15 Verb (VP) chaining and adverbial clauses; 16 Conditional constructions; 17 Complement and purposive clauses; 18 Anaphora; 19 Grammatical pragmatics; 20 Dialects; Backmatter.