A grammar of Fongbe / Claire Lefebvre, Anne-Marie Brousseau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lefebvre, Claire.

Contributor:

Brousseau, Anne-Marie.

Series:

Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

Mouton grammar library ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fon dialect--Grammar.

Fon dialect.

African languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (608 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a reference grammar of Fongbe, a language which is part of the Gbe dialect cluster. It is spoken mainly in the former kingdom of Dahomey, which today comprises the southern areas of Benin and Togo. This book has three objectives: First, its main purpose is to provide a thorough description of the grammar of Fongbe. Second, this book provides language-specific syntactic tests which were developed in the course of this research. Finally, we provide the reader with the most exhaustive list possible of references on Fongbe, and on the Gbe languages in general. This book thus attempts to represent a "state of the art" of the language itself, and of the analyses proposed to account for its particular constructions. This book is of particular interest to Africanists, scholars interested in comparative linguistics or in the reconstruction of language families, and creolists who work on the languages spoken in the Caribbean area.

Contents:

Frontmatter

1. Introduction

2. Overview of the phonology

Part I Functional categories

3. Functional categories involved in the nominal structure

4. Pronominal forms

5. Tense, mood and aspect

6. Functional categories involved in the structure of the clause

7. Clause structures

Part II Lexical categories

8. Morphology

9. Compounds

10. Verbs

11. Prepositions and postpositions

12. Modifiers

Part III The major syntactic constructions of the language

13. Serial verbs

14. The double object construction

15. The definite determiner in simple clauses

16. The so-called verb-doubling phenomena

Appendices

Appendix I: Swadesh list

Appendix II: Text

Appendix III: Additional data on d̨ɔ́ introducing complements of verbs of the SAY-class

Appendix IV: A sample of idiomatic verbal expressions

References

Index of authors

Index of subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-572) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110880182

3110880180

OCLC:

843635421