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Grammer of contemporary Igbo : constituents, features and processes / E. Nolue Emenanjo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Emenanjọ, E. Nọlue, author.
- Series:
- LAN occasional publications.
- LAN occasional publications
- Language:
- English
- Igbo
- Subjects (All):
- Igbo language--Grammar.
- Igbo language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (676 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Port Harcourt, Nigeria : M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., 2015.
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Igbo.
- Summary:
- In twenty-five chapters this book covers phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The chapters are organized in four discrete parts: phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. They are uneven in terms of scope covered, length, the density of their contents and their degrees of difficulty. Each chapter ends with 'Some References' relevant to both the topic(s) treated in the chapter, in Igbo linguistics, and in general linguistics.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Contents
- 1. THE IGBO LANGUAGE: AN OVERVIEW
- Preamble
- An Anthropologist's Perspective
- (i) The Igbo Culture Area
- The Linguistic Theme
- The Igbo Language: The Linguists' Perspectives
- Genetic Classification
- Igbo Dialects
- Igbo Dialects and Mutual Intelligibility
- Typology
- Standard Igbo (SI)
- Igbo: A Verb Language
- The Verbal Complex
- Ideophones
- An Agglutinating Language
- Towards Grammatical Categories Relevant In Igbo
- The Grammatical Categories and the Constituents Relevant in Igbo
- Definitions of the Constituents
- The Grammatical Categories not Relevant in Igbo
- Voice and Ergativity
- Lexicalization and Grammaticalization
- Phonology and Phoneme Inventory
- Igbo Orthography
- Recent Developments in the Igbo Language
- Some References
- 2. THE SYLLABLE AND ITS PHONEMES
- Igbo Syllable Structure
- The Consonants of the Lects of Igbo - An Overview
- The Vowels of Igbo
- The Vowels of the Lects in Igbo - An Overview
- 3. PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSES
- Phonological Processes Involving Vowels
- Vowel Harmony
- Vowel Harmony: An Aberration?
- Restrictions on VH
- VH in Igbo: An Overview
- VH in Igbo Grammar
- Violations of Vowel Harmony
- Vowel Assimilation
- General Observations about Vowel Assimilation
- Vowel Elision
- Vowel Reduplication
- Epenthesis
- Phonological Process(es) Involving The Syllabic Nasal
- Phonological Process Involving Consonants
- Consonant Harmony
- Types of Consonant-To-Consonant Harmony
- Consonant Deletion
- Phonation Types
- Aspiration
- Nasalization and Nasals
- Nasalization as a Prosody
- Can Aspiration and Nasalization Co-occur?
- Secondary Articulation
- Labialization.
- Labiodentalization
- 4. TONOLOGY
- Features of the Igbo Tone System
- Functions of Tones in Igbo
- Tone Classes of Nouns
- Some Nouns to Note
- Tone Classes of Verbs
- The Complex Verb Stem
- Tonal Features of Complex Verbs
- Tone Rules
- Intonation
- Tones Across Igbo Dialects: Mutual Intelligibility
- Theoretical Studies of Tone
- Tonal Notation
- The Lyrical (Function of) Tone
- 5. MORPHOLOGY
- What constitutes a word, or wordhood? What is a word?
- The Definition of the Morpheme
- The Identification of the Morpheme
- The Classification of Morphemes
- Some Basic Concepts in Morphology and Igbo
- The Low Tone
- The Downstep
- Igbo Morphology: A Classification
- Affixation and Universal Morphology
- Affixation and Igbo Morphology
- Circumfixes or Circumfixation in Igbo?
- Infixes in Igbo: A Diachronic View
- Derivational Morphology: A Synchronic View
- Particles?
- 6. WORDHOOD AND MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES
- The Linguistic Word
- Simple Words
- Complex Words
- Words in Human Communication
- Towards Classifying Igbo Words
- Morphological Processes
- Reduplication
- Partial Reduplication or Back Formation?
- Reduplicated Verbs
- Word Repetition
- Blending
- Blending in Complex NPs
- Back-formation
- Deaffixation
- Clipping
- Compounding?
- Types of Compounds in Universal Morphology
- Conclusion
- 7. DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY
- The Igbo Verb and Derivational Morphology
- The Nomino-Verbals
- The Infinitives
- The Participles
- The Syntax-Semantics of Nomino-Verbals
- Nominals
- Derivational Suffixes
- Diachronic Morphology and the Derivatives
- Derivational Morphology from Non-Verbal Sources
- Derivational Morphology and the Contemporary Igbo Lexicon
- Conclusion.
- Some References
- 8. EXTENSIONAL MORPHOLOGY
- Features of Extensional Morphology
- ESS Are Not Verbs
- Towards a Classification of ESS
- ESS As Lexicalization Markers
- 9. CLITICS AND CLITICISATION
- Features of Clitics
- Location of Clitics
- Clitics in Igbo: A Critique of the Available Literature
- Clitics as Lexicalization and Syntactic Markers
- Cliticization and Interrogation
- Observations
- The Proclitics and Non-Polar Questions
- The Proclitic and Relativization
- 10. NOMINALS AND NOMINALIZATION
- What is a nominal?
- A Lexical Classification of Nouns
- Proper Nouns
- Common Nouns
- Qualifactive Nouns
- Adverbial Nouns
- Numerals and Numbers
- The Traditional System
- The Modern System
- Numbers
- Quantifiers (Mkpotota)
- Nominalization
- 11. PRONOMINALIZATION
- Features of Pronouns
- Pronouns as Nominals
- Syntactic Behaviour
- Personal Pronouns as Nominals
- Pronouns and Polar Questions
- Tonal Behaviour of Pronouns
- Definiteness, Person and Number in Pronouns
- Towards a Features Analysis of Igbo Pronouns
- Issues Arising from a Features' Approach
- Pronouns: Particles, Affixes, Clitics or Concord Markers?
- Pronominalization and Deixis
- Personal Deixis
- 12. ADPOSITION
- Features of Adposition
- From Adposition to Preposition, and Prepositional Notions
- A. Lexicalization and Prepositional Notions in Igbo
- B. Grammaticalization and Prepositional Notions
- 13. CONJUNCTION
- Features of the Conjunction
- The Conjunction As a Form Class
- A Composite List of the Conjunctions
- Features of the Igbo Conjunctions
- A Classification of Igbo Conjunctions
- Coordinators
- Coordination and Coordinates
- Features of Igbo Coordination
- Coordination: Distributive Vs. Joint.
- Enclitics as Coordinators
- Subordination
- The Subordinators: A Composite List
- 14. ADJECTIVIZATION
- What is Adjectivization?
- Adjectives in Igbo: A Brief Historical Overview
- Thomas (1913)
- Adams (1932)
- Ward (1936)
- Green and Igwe (1963)
- Ogbalu (1962
- 1972)
- Carnochan (1967)
- Abraham (1967)
- Carrell (1970)
- Welmers and Welmers (1968)
- Igwe (1974)
- Emenanjo (1972
- 1978)
- Anyanwu (1996)
- Maduka-Durunze (1991)
- Other Adjectivals
- Legend
- 15. ADVERBIALIZATION
- What is Adverbialization?
- Adverbs in Igbo: A Historical Overview
- Igbo Adverbials
- Adverbials in the Sentence
- Adverbials and Multiple Occurrences
- The Adjuncts: Naani/Sòosò (Sisò, Sosò, Sìisò)
- Adverbials in Igbo: A New Approach
- Conjuncts
- Disjuncts
- Adverbials and their Meanings/Functions
- 16. INTERROGATION
- The Position of Interrogation in Igbo
- WH-Questions
- Interrogation and The Low Tone
- A Syntactic Classification of Interrogatives
- The Independent Interrogatives
- The Dependent Interrogatives
- The Diachronics of Some Interrogatives
- Indirect Questions
- Polar Questions As Indirect Questions
- WH-Questions as Indirect Questions
- Other Features of Interrogation in Igbo
- Declarative Questions
- Alternative Questions
- Tag-Qs
- Intonation and Interrogation
- Is the Interrogative, a Mood?
- 17. RELATIVIZATION
- Relativization in Igbo: The Scholarship
- Relativization: Typology
- The Zero RC
- 18. THE VERBAL SYSTEM
- The Verb in Human Language and Communication
- The Sentence
- The Igbo Verb
- Towards A Multiple Classification of Igbo Verbs
- Full Verbs
- Defective Verbs
- The Sources of Verbids.
- The Nuclear Modals
- The Periphrastic Modal(s)
- Lexical Classes of Verbs
- Verbal Derivatives
- Notes
- 19. VERB INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY
- Grammatical Categories Relevant to the Igbo Verb
- Tense and Aspect in Igbo: A Historical Sketch
- Tense
- Tense in Igbo
- (Simple) Past Tense
- (Simple) Future Tense
- (Simple) Past-In-The-Future Tense
- Observations on Tense
- Aspect
- The Perfective Aspects
- The Imperfective Aspects
- The Imperfective in Some Lects
- Tense and Aspect in Igbo
- Tense and Negation
- Negation
- Negation and Interrogation
- Negation and Focus
- Negation, Tense, Aspect and Serial Verbal Constructions (SVCs)
- Tense and Mood
- 20. IGBO VERBS: TRANSITIVITY OR COMPLEMENTATION?
- Transitivity and Complementation in Igbo
- A Classification of Verbs in Terms of Their Complements
- The Arguments for Transitivity in Igbo
- Problems with the Transitivity Analysis
- The Case for Complementation in Igbo
- Transitivity and the Scenarios in two other Nigerian Languages
- The Status of the Cognate Form Following The Verb
- Implications of the Complementation Analysis
- 21. MOOD AND MODALITY
- Features of Mood and Modality
- Mood and Modality in Igbo
- Indicative Mood
- Subjunctive Mood
- Hortative Mood
- Conditional
- Imperative
- The (Simple) Imperative: Affirmative
- (Simple) Imperative: Negative
- The Imperative-Progressive
- The Imperative-Progressive: Affirmative
- Imperative-Progressive: Negative
- Modality
- Mood, Modality, Tense, and Aspect
- Future: Mood or Tense?
- 22. SOME TYPES OF IGBO SENTENCES
- Towards a Typology of Sentences in Human Language
- Serial Verbal Construction (SVCs)
- On Igbo SVCs
- The Semantics of SVCs
- Semantics and Igbo SVCs
- The Syntax-Semantics of SVCs.
- SVCs, Semantics and Complex Verbs.
- Notes:
- Dedicated to Benjamin O. Akwukwuma.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed July 7, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9789785421521
- 978542152X
- OCLC:
- 952793085
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