Class Marking in Emai
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Class Marking in Emai

Retention, Reduction, and Transformation of Inflectional Resources

  1. 311 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Class Marking in Emai

Retention, Reduction, and Transformation of Inflectional Resources

About this book

Class Marking in Emai examines the retention, reduction, and transformation of inflectional resources pertaining to noun class in Emai, an Edoid language of south-central Nigeria. Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare demonstrate that in contrast to its Bantu relations, Emai retains form class prefixes on a relatively small group of nouns that distribute across eleven declension sets. Prefix addition rather than prefix alternation arises when ideophonic adverbials become syntactically displaced due to information structure and when Emai borrows lexical items from other languages. Reduction is evident in two primary domains: agreement class or gender and prefixes that alternate to express form class and grammatical number. As for transformation, it characterizes tonal, nominal and pronominal domains. Putting Emai and its noun class system into a broader cultural and archaeological context of historical language change, this book explores what it means to be a Benue Congo language with a reduced inflectional system.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Class Marking in Emai
  3. Class Marking in Emai: Retention, Reduction, and Transformation of Inflectional Resources
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Tables
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Map
  9. Preface
  10. Chapter 1
  11. Emai, Edoid, and Benue Congo
  12. Chapter 2
  13. Class Marking in Benue Congo
  14. Chapter 3
  15. Class Marking in Edoid
  16. Chapter 4
  17. Class Marking in Emai
  18. Chapter 5
  19. Agreement Marking in Emai
  20. Chapter 6
  21. Class Marking on Emai Pronouns
  22. Chapter 7
  23. Nominalization of Emai Verb Stems
  24. Chapter 8
  25. Class Marking on Emai Compounds
  26. Chapter 9
  27. Ideophone Class Marking and Contact in Emai
  28. Chapter 10
  29. Retention, Reduction, and Transformation
  30. References
  31. Index
  32. About the Author