A Grammar of Ma'di / Mairi Blackings, Nigel Fabb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackings, Mairi John, author.

Fabb, Nigel, author.

Series:

Mouton grammar library ; 32

Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lugbara language--Grammar.

Lugbara language.

Central Sudanic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (752 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This grammar provides one of the most detailed accounts available of the syntax of a Nilo-Saharan language. It fully describes some of the unusual characteristics of Ma'di, including the different word orders associated with different tenses, the particle-based modal and focus systems, the full range of adverbials, and the structure and meaning of the noun phrase. The grammar also describes the phonetics, phonology, morphology, and aspects of the lexicon of the language.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 An overview of Ma'di

Chapter 3 Phonetics

Chapter 4 Phonology and morphology

Chapter 5 Verbs

Chapter 6 Other word classes

Chapter 7 The uninflected verb

Chapter 8 The inflected verb

Chapter 9 The directive verb

Chapter 10 Suffixed subordinate verbs

Chapter 11 Sentences with nonverbal predicates

Chapter 12 Noun phrases

Chapter 13 Modification of the noun (including possession)

Chapter 14 Nonsingular noun phrases

Chapter 15 Postposition phrases and other location expressions

Chapter 16 Verbs and clausal complements

Chapter 17 Modals and negation

Chapter 18 Adverbials

Chapter 19 Focus and Information structure

Chapter 20 Questions

Chapter 21 Lexicon

Chapter 22 Texts

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [729]-730) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110894967

3110894963

OCLC:

979589197