Information structure in Fula-Serer : a detailed study of Pular in comparison with its relatives /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Apel, Viktoria (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020.
Colección:Asien- und Afrika-Studien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ; Bd. 54.
Temas:
Pular dialect.
Fula language > Grammar.
Pulaar (Dialecte)
Peul (Langue) > Grammaire.
Fula language > Grammar
Pular dialect
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title pages
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1 General introduction
  • 1.1 The Fula-Serer group
  • 1.2 Previous research on information strucutre in Pular
  • 1.3 Data and methods
  • 1.4 Orthography and conventions
  • Part I: Introduction
  • 2 Grammatical sketch of Pular
  • 2.1 Phonology
  • 2.1.1 Phoneme inventory
  • 2.1.2 Syllable structure
  • 2.1.3 Stress assignment in isolated words and nominal groups
  • 2.1.4 Phonological processes
  • 2.2 Nominal morphosyntax
  • 2.2.1 Nominal form classes and deriflection
  • 2.2.2 Agreement classes and gender
  • 2.2.3 Initial consonant mutation
  • 2.2.4 Noun phrase
  • 2.3 Verbal morphosyntax
  • 2.3.1 Verb structure
  • 2.3.2 Simple predicates
  • 2.3.2.1 Perfective paradigms
  • 2.3.2.2 Imperfective paradigms
  • 2.3.3 Complex predicates
  • 2.3.3.1 Locative periphrasis
  • 2.3.3.2 Auxiliaries and particles
  • 2.3.3.3 Preterite particle
  • 2.3.4 Verb phrase
  • 2.4 Simple sentences
  • 2.4.1 Non-verbal clauses
  • 2.4.2 Verbal clauses
  • 2.4.3 Questions
  • 2.5 Complex sentences
  • 2.6 Clausal coordination
  • 3 Theoretical notions of information structure
  • 3.1 Categorical statements
  • 3.1.1 Topic-comment structure
  • 3.1.1.1 Topics and the unmarked sentence
  • 3.1.1.2 Topicalisation and left-dislocation
  • 3.1.1.3 Aboutness topics and framesetters
  • 3.1.1.4 Antitopics
  • 3.1.2 Focus-background structure
  • 3.1.2.1 Scope of focus
  • 3.1.2.2 Functions of focus
  • 3.2 Thetic statements
  • 3.3 Chapter summary
  • Part II: Information Structure in Pular
  • 4 Description of construction types in Pular
  • 4.1 Construction Type I: "One word" utterances
  • 4.2 Construction Type II: Single clauses
  • 4.2.1 Non-verbal (Type II.a)
  • 4.2.2 Simple verbal modal (Type II.b)
  • 4.2.3 Simple verbal non-modal (Type II.c)
  • 4.2.4 Complex verbal modal (Type II.d)
  • 4.2.5 Complex verbal non-modal (Type II.e)
  • 4.2.6 Functions of single clauses
  • 4.3 Construction Type III: Bipartite clauses
  • 4.3.1 Cleft sentences (Type III.a)
  • 4.3.1.1 Features of the preclausal focus field
  • 4.3.1.2 Features of the dependent clause
  • 4.3.1.3 Functions of cleft sentences
  • 4.3.2 Pseudo-cleft sentences (Type III.b)
  • 4.3.2.1 Features of pseudo-cleft sentences
  • 4.3.3.2. Functions of pseudo-cleft sentences
  • 4.4 Construction Type IV: Clause linkage
  • 4.4.1 Subordination
  • 4.4.1.1 Relative clauses (Type IV.a)
  • 4.4.1.2 Adverbial clauses (Type IV.b)
  • 4.4.1.3 Complement clauses (Type IV.c)
  • 4.4.1.4 Direct speech complements (Type IV.d)
  • 4.4.2 Coordination and cosubordination
  • 4.5 Construction Type V: The preclausal focus field
  • 4.6 Construction Type VI: The preclausal topic field
  • 4.6.1 Topicalisation (Type VI.a)
  • 4.6.2 Left-dislocation (Type VI.b)
  • 4.6.3 Topic markers
  • 4.7 Construction Type VII: The postclausal antitopic field
  • 4.8 Chapter summary
  • 5 Distribution of Pular construction types in natural discourse
  • 5.1 The corpus for this study

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