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A Grammar of Igala.
The book establishes 28 phonemic consonants and 7 vowels, as well as lexical and grammatical tones in Igala. It shows the canonical syllable types as V and CV with no complexity, and relates resyllabification to the retiming of segments as tone bearing units and the duration of their mora. The work...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Port Harcourt, Nigeria :
M and J Grand Orbit Communications,
2016-12-14 00:00:00.0.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Editorial Note; Preface; Contents; List of Abbreviations and Symbols; List of Tables and Figures; Chapter One
- The Igala Language; 1.1 Historical Background of the People; 1.2 Territory; 1.3 Some Linguistic Features and Classification; 1.4 Earlier Studies; 1.5 The Present Study; Chapter Two
- What is Grammar?; 2.1 The Sanctimonious Text View; 2.2 The Codification/Documentation View; 2.3 The Learned/Skilled Possession View; 2.4 The Selective Endowment View; 2.5 The Prescriptivist View; 2.6 The Structuralist View; 2.7 The Descriptivist View.
- 2.8 The Cognitivist View2.9 The Concept of Grammar; Chapter Three
- Igala Phonology; 3.1 Vowels; 3.2 Consonants; 3.3 The Syllable; 3.3.1 Syllable Types; 3.3.2 Syllabification and Glide Formation; 3.3.3 Reanalyses of some Ambivalent Units; 3.4 Tones; 3.4.1 Lexical Tone; 3.5 Phonological Underspecification; 3.5.1 Tonally Underspecified Subject Clitics; 3.5.2 Vocalically Underspecified Elements; 3.5.3 Consonantally Underspecified Partial Reduplicative Morpheme; 3.6 Vowel Harmony; 3.7 Morphophonology; 3.7.1 Segmental Morphophonology; 3.7.1.1 Lowering of Formal Segments; 3.7.1.2 Deletion Processes.
- 3.7.1.3 Assimilatory Processes3.7.1.4 Metathesis; 3.7.1.5 Insertion Processes; 3.7.2 Tonal Morphophonology; 3.7.2.1 Tone Modification in Noun + Noun Structure; 3.7.2.1.1 High Tone ' as T1; 3.7.2.1.1.1 High Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.1.1.2 Low Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.1.1.3 Rising Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.1.2 Mid Tone as T1; 3.7.2.1.2.1 High Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.1.2.2 Low Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.1.2.3 Rising Tone ' T2; 3.7.2.1.3 Low Tone ' as T1; 3.7.2.1.3.1 High Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.1.3.2 Low Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.1.3.3 Rising Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.1.4 Falling Tone ' as T1; 3.7.2.1.4.1 High Tone ' as T2.
- 3.7.2.1.4.2 Low Tone ' as T23.7.2.1.4.3 Rising Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2 Tone Perturbation in Verb + Noun Structure; 3.7.2.2.1 High Tone 'as T1; 3.7.2.2.1.1 High Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.1.2 Low Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.1.3 Rising Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.2 Mid Tone as T1; 3.7.2.2.2.1 High Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.2.2 Low Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.2.3 Rising Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.3 Low Tone ' as T1; 3.7.2.2.3.1 High Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.3.2 Low Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.3.3 Rising Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.4 Rising Tone ' as T1; 3.7.2.2.4.1 High Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.4.2 Low Tone ' as T2.
- 3.7.2.2.4.3 Rising Tone ' as T23.7.2.2.4 Falling Tone ' as T1; 3.7.2.2.4.1 High Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.4.2 Low Tone ' as T2; 3.7.2.2.4.3 Rising Tone ' as T2; Chapter Four
- Igala Morphology; 4.1 The Noun; 4.1.1 Grammatical Number in Nouns; 4.1.1.1 Number in [+Animate] Nouns; 4.1.1.2 Number in [-Animate] Nouns; 4.2 The Verb; 4.2.1 Splitting and Non-Splitting Verbs; 4.2.2 Splitting and Non-Splitting Inherent Complement Verbs; 4.3 The Auxiliary Verb; 4.4 The Adjective; 4.5 The Adverb; 4.6 Pronouns; 4.6.1 Personal Pronouns; 4.6.2 Reflexive Pronouns; 4.6.3 Reciprocals; 4.6.4 Interrogative Pronouns.