A grammar of Pévé / by Erin Shay in collaboration with Lazare Wambadang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shay, Erin, author.

Wambadang, Lazare, 1968- author.

Series:

Center for Oceans Law and Policy; volume23.

Center for Oceans Law and Policy; volume23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pévé language--Grammar.

Pévé language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

A Grammar of Pévé is the first full description of the Pévé language, a member of the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Pévé is spoken in parts of the southwestern area of the Republic of Chad and the Northern province of the Republic of Cameroon. The grammar will add to information and analyses concerning Afro-Asiatic languages and will help Pévé speakers preserve their language, history, cultural activities, and intercultural relations. The goal of the volume is to document and preserve the language for the benefit of generations to come and to make characteristics of the language available for further research in linguistics, history, anthropology, sociology and related fields.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Acknowledgments / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Abbreviations / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

The Pévé Language / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Phonology / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Parsing Morphology / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Verbs / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Nouns and the Noun Phrase / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Coding Grammatical Relations / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Coding Semantic Relations / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Tense and Aspect / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Mood and Modality / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Locative Expressions and Locative Predications / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Verbless and Copular Predications / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

System of Reference / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Interrogatives / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Negation / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Topicalization and Focus / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Conjoined Clauses / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Relative Clauses / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Conditional and Temporal Constructions / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Complementation / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Comparative Constructions / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Adjunct Phrases and Clauses / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Sample Texts / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Back Matter

A Compilation of Tables / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

A Summary of Morphological Forms and Functions / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Pévé-English Lexicon / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

English-Pévé Lexicon / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

References / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Index / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang

Abstracts / Erin Shay and Lazare Wambadang.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004410053

9004410058

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004410053 DOI