Nilo-Saharan : models and descriptions / edited by Angelika Mietzner & Anne Storch.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Mietzner, Angelika, editor.

Storch, Anne, editor.

Conference Name:

Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium (11th : 2013 : Universität zu Köln)

Series:

Nilo-Saharan ; 0932-1993 v. 28.

Nilo-Saharan, 0932-1993 ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nilo-Saharan languages--Congresses.

Nilo-Saharan languages.

Local Subjects:

Nilo-Saharan languages.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

401 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, [2015]

Contents:

Number and case inflection in Tennet noun and adjective / Adelino Amargira

Case alignment(s) in Sinyar / Pascal Boyeldieu

Case marking in Tugen / Prisca Jerono

Case as meta-categorical heuristic in Ik grammaticography / Terrill Schrock

Classifier, reflexive, and beyond: a synchronic and diachronic exploration of the morpheme /tsa/ 'body' in Gumuz / Colleen Ahland

Locational nouns in Datooga / Stefan Bruckhaus

The use of body part lexemes in Berta / Susanne Neudorf

The Ama dual suffix: an internal reconstruction / Russell Norton

Dual number in Ethiopian Komo / Manuel A. Otero

The pronominal system of Baka / Christine Waag & Martin Phodunze

Stamp morphs in Central Sudanic languages / Gregory D.S. Anderson

Syntactic sensitivity and preferred clause structure in Majang / Andreas Joswig

Complex verbal predicates in Uduk / Don Killian

The philosophy of walking: motion and the verbs of walking in Cherang'any (Kalenjin) / Angelika Mietzner

Perspectives on Nilotic verb composition: why can't we agree on the Maa verb? / Doris L. Payne

Mixed pivot constraints in Toposa clause chaining / Helga Schröder

Tone and tongue root as ventive morphemes in Endo-Marakwet / Chelimo Andrew Kiprop

The relationship between syllable weight and stress in Dholuo / Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor

Eastern Nilotic vowel harmony and optimality theory: what can the optimal system look like? / Diane Lesley-Neuman

Berta and the East Jebel subfamily: reinvestigating a Nilo-Saharan isolate / Nate D. Bremer

The diachronic developments of KI Constructions in the Luo and Koman families / Richard Griscom

Linguistic etiquette in a frontier situation: a case study from Chopi / Anne Storch

Is Aroid Nilo-Saharan or Afro-Asiatic? Some evidences from phonological, lexical and morphological reconstructions / Moges Yigezu.

Notes:

" ... outcome of the 11th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium which took place in May 22nd-24th, 2013 at the University of Cologne."--Page 7.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783896456656

3896456652

OCLC:

917498066

Publisher Number:

9783896456656