A grammar of Mani / by G. Tucker Childs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Childs, George Tucker.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Mouton grammar library ; 0933-7636 54.

Mouton grammar library, 0933-7636 ; 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bullom So language--Grammar.

Bullom So language.

Grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 270 pages) : illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Dedication; Preface; Conventions, abbreviations and symbols used; Conventions; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1. Project location; 2. Mani nomenclature; 3. Demographics; 4. Classification; 5. Historical background; 6. Pilot study: Language assessment survey (2000); 7. The Mani Documentation Project (2004-06); 8. Typological overview; Chapter 2: Phonemic inventory; 1. The consonants of Mani; 2. The vowels of Mani; 3. Syllabic nasals; Chapter 3: Prosody; 1. Nasalization; 2. Syllable structure; 3. Syllable-structure changes; 4. Tone; 5. Intonation.

Chapter 4: Word categories1. Nouns; 2. Names; 3. Pronouns; 3.1 Personal pronouns; 3.2 Noun class pronouns; 3.3 Demonstrative pronouns; 3.4 Indefinite and locative pronouns; 3.5 Reflexivity and reciprocity; 4. Numbers; 5. Adjectives and related forms; 5.1 Adjectives; 5.2 Demonstrative adjectives; 5.3 Articles; 5.4 Quantifiers and ordinal numbers; 6. Verbs and verbal forms; 7. The Copula; 8. Adverbs; 9. Ideophones; 10. Adpositions; 11. Conjunctions; 12. Particles; Chapter 5: Some remarks on semantics; 1. Family relations; 2. Mental and bodily states; 3. Time words; 4. Mood.

Chapter 6: The noun class system1. The w? class; 2. The?a class (human plurals); 3. The le class; 4. The sa class (animal plurals) and animate concord; 5. The nye class; 6. The ta class (inanimate plurals); 7. The ma class; 8. The noun-like indefinite pronoun pe; 9. Final comments on the noun class system; Chapter 7: Verbal morphology; 1. Habitual; 2. Perfective; 3. Imperfective; 4. Past; 5. Hortative; 6. Negative; 7. Co-occurrence of ka and ce (summarized); 8. Other verbal matters; Chapter 8: Derivational morphology; 1. Verb extensions; 1.1 Benefactive; 1.2 Causative; 1.3 Stative.

1.4 Completive1.5 Middle; 1.6 Pluractional reduplication; 1.7 Final comments on verb extensions; 2. Other derivational processes; 2.1 Adjectivalization; 2.2 Nominalization; 2.3 Masculine and feminine nouns / animals; 2.4 Adverbialization; Chapter 9: Compounding; Chapter 10: Phrase-level syntax; 1. The noun phrase; 1.1 Possession; 1.2 Attributive constructions; 1.3 Distributive; 2. The verb phrase; 2.1 i Insertion; 2.2 Split predicates, the S-Aux-O-V-X syntagm; 2.3 The Inner VP; 3. The adpositional phrase; Chapter 11: Clause-level syntax; 1. Questions; 2. Focus; 3. Comparative constructions.

4. TopicalizationChapter 12: Subordination and coordination; 1. Embedding; 2. Relativization; 3. Subordinate clauses; 4. Coordination; Chapter 13: Discourse and pragmatics; 1. Discourse particles; 2. Salutations, politeness formulae, terms of address; Appendices; Appendix 1: Texts; "How to fish on the open sea"; A section from a Mani history; "Tomro and the hippopotamus"; A Mani lullaby; Some Mani proverbs; Some Mani insults; Appendix 2: Pedagogical materials; Sample pages from a Mani primer (Childs 2007); Story from a Mani primer; Notes; References; Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Childs, George Tucker. Grammar of Mani.

ISBN:

9783110265019

311026501X

3110264978

9783110264975

Publisher Number:

99964661437

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