A Grammar of Koyra Chiini
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A Grammar of Koyra Chiini

The Songhay of Timbuktu

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  2. English
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A Grammar of Koyra Chiini

The Songhay of Timbuktu

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110162851
eBook ISBN
9783110804850
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Abbreviations
  2. Map
  3. 1 Introduction
  4. 1.1 Generalities about Songhay
  5. 1.2 History and geography
  6. 1.3 Format of grammar
  7. 1.4 Transcriptional conventions
  8. 1.5 Literature review
  9. 1.6 Acknowledgements
  10. 2 Overview
  11. 2.1 Brief outline of typical sentence and NP structures
  12. 2.2 Distinctive features of Koyra Chiini
  13. 2.3 Internal variation within Koyra Chiini
  14. 3 Phonology
  15. 3.1 Consonants
  16. 3.2 Oral vowels
  17. 3.3 Diphthongs
  18. 3.4 Nasalized vowels and word-final nasal consonants
  19. 3.5 Syllabification
  20. 3.6 Consonantal assimilations and deletions
  21. 3.7 Vocalic contraction, deletion, shortening, and lengthening
  22. 3.8 Minor phonological alternations
  23. 3.9 Prosodics
  24. 3.10 Historical phonological notes
  25. 4 Nouns, pronouns, and nominal derivation
  26. 4.1 Personal pronouns
  27. 4.2 Demonstratives
  28. 4.3 Nominalizations
  29. 4.4 Morphology of adjectives
  30. 4.5 Quantificational adjectives
  31. 4.6 Nominal compounds
  32. 4.7 Reduplication of noun and adjective stems
  33. 5 Nominal inflection and NP syntax
  34. 5.1 Overview
  35. 5.2 Possessives
  36. 5.3 Adjectives
  37. 5.4 Numerals and other quantifiers
  38. 5.5 Demonstrative woo
  39. 5.6 Definite di
  40. 5.7 Plural yo
  41. 5.8 Markers of discourse status
  42. 5.9 Adpositions and case-marking
  43. 5.10 Apposition
  44. 5.11 Instrumental, comitative, and conjoined NPs
  45. 5.12 Locational Phrases and Temporal Phrases
  46. 6 Verbal voice and verb derivation
  47. 6.1 Subcategorization for objects and adpositional phrases
  48. 6.2 Derived voice forms
  49. 6.3 Compounds
  50. 6.4 Verb-stem reduplication
  51. 7 VP structure
  52. 7.1 Types of predicates
  53. 7.2 Mood-aspect-negation (MAN)
  54. 7.3 Imperatives
  55. 8 Discourse-functional constructions and relativization
  56. 8.1 Focus constructions
  57. 8.2 Questions and answers
  58. 8.3 Relative clause constructions
  59. 8.4 Topic constructions
  60. 8.5 Emphatics and similatives
  61. 8.6 Co-occurrence of major discourse-functional categories
  62. 9 Sentence-level syntax and semantics
  63. 9.1 Object NPs and other postverbal constituents
  64. 9.2 Adjectival intensifying interjections
  65. 9.3 Operators and scope
  66. 9.4 Overview of complement clause types
  67. 9.5 Clause conjunction and indicative complement clauses
  68. 9.6 Subjunctive complements
  69. 9.7 Infinitival VPs and serial verbs
  70. 10 Anaphora, logophorics, and reported speech
  71. 10.1 Reported speech and logophoric pronouns
  72. 10.2 Reflexives and reciprocals
  73. 10.3 Generic and indefinite reference
  74. 10.4 Sloppy (partial) coreferentiality
  75. 11 Semantic topics
  76. 11.1 Spatiotemporal structures
  77. 11.2 Weather and ambient condition
  78. 11.3 Perception
  79. 11.4 Emotion and personality
  80. 11.5 Kinship
  81. 11.6 Flora-fauna
  82. 11.7 Body parts
  83. Appendix 1 Upriver dialects
  84. Appendix 2 Djenné Chiini
  85. Text
  86. References
  87. Morpheme Index
  88. Subject Index

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