A Grammar of Lango
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A Grammar of Lango

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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A Grammar of Lango

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Table of contents

  1. A note on transcription
  2. List of abbreviations
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: Phonology and morphology
  5. Table: Lango morphophonemes
  6. 1. Consonants
  7. 1.1 Inventory of consonants
  8. 1.2 Distribution of consonants
  9. 1.3 Inventory of consonant morphophonemes
  10. 1.4 Other morphophonemic processes
  11. 1.5 Non-productive alternations
  12. 1.6 ‘Zero consonants’
  13. 2. Vowels
  14. 2.1 Inventory of vowels
  15. 2.2 Vowel length
  16. 2.3 Nasalization
  17. 2.4 Inventory of vowel morphophonemes
  18. 2.5 Distribution of vowels
  19. 2.6 Adjacent vowels in internal sandhi
  20. 2.7 Adjacent vowels in external sandhi
  21. 2.8 Non-productive alternations
  22. 3. Stress
  23. 4. Tone
  24. 4.1 Inventory of tones
  25. 4.2 Downdrift and downstep
  26. 4.3 Tone patterns in citation forms
  27. 4.4 Tone sandhi
  28. 4.5 The irregular H(L) class nouns
  29. Part II: Morphology
  30. 5. The structure of Lango words
  31. 5.1 General considerations
  32. 5.2 Nouns
  33. 5.3 Verbs
  34. 5.4 Adjectives
  35. 5.5 Prepositions
  36. 5.6 Pronouns
  37. 5.7 Numerals
  38. 6. Reduplication
  39. 7. Compounds
  40. Part III: Syntax
  41. 8. The syntax of simple sentences
  42. 8.1 Basic order of the sentence
  43. 8.2 Verbal complex
  44. 8.3 Predicate nominal and predicate adjective constructions
  45. 8.4 Existence, location, and possession
  46. 8.5 Deviations from the basic order
  47. 8.6 Expression of passive senses
  48. 8.7 The organization of the noun phrase
  49. 8.8 Prepositional phrases
  50. 8.9 Interrogative constructions
  51. 8.10 Reduplicative constructions and gerunds
  52. 8.11 Expression of adverbial notions
  53. 8.12 Sentence particles
  54. 8.13 Weather expressions
  55. 8.14 The pro-predicate
  56. 8.15 Body-part imagery
  57. 9. The syntax of complex sentences
  58. 9.1 Introduction
  59. 9.2 Relative clauses
  60. 9.3 Complementation
  61. 9.4 Comparative constructions
  62. 9.5 Ingressive constructions
  63. 9.6 Coordinating sentences
  64. 9.7 Conditional constructions
  65. 9.8 Cleft constructions
  66. 9.9 Embedded cleft and topic constructions
  67. 9.10 Subjects and topics
  68. 9.11 Negative NP’s
  69. 9.12 Expression of adverbial notions
  70. 10. Structures in discourse
  71. 11. Additional issues
  72. Notes
  73. References
  74. Sample text
  75. Lango-English vocabulary
  76. English-Lango vocabulary
  77. Index