A Grammar of Supyire
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A Grammar of Supyire

  1. 785 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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A Grammar of Supyire

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Table of contents

  1. Tables
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Map 1: Area where Supyire is spoken
  4. Map 2: Area where Senufo languages are spoken
  5. 1. Introduction
  6. 1.1. The people
  7. 1.2. The language
  8. 1.3. Previous research
  9. 1.4. The data base
  10. 1.5. Aims of this grammar
  11. 1.6. Typological characteristics
  12. 1.7. A word on the examples
  13. 2. Phonology
  14. 2.1. Consonants
  15. 2.2. Vowels
  16. 2.3. Tone
  17. 3. Nouns
  18. 3.1. Noun genders
  19. 3.2. Derivational noun morphology
  20. 4. Verbs
  21. 4.1. Verb prefixes
  22. 4.2. Imperfective morphology
  23. 4.3. The causative
  24. 4.4. The iterative / intensive
  25. 4.5. Incorporated objects
  26. 5. Other word classes
  27. 5.1. Pronouns and determiners
  28. 5.2. Adjectives
  29. 5.3. Numerals
  30. 5.4. Quantifiers
  31. 5.5. Adverbs
  32. 5.6. Tense, aspect, and modality auxiliaries
  33. 5.7. Adpositions
  34. 5.8. Conjunctions
  35. 5.9. Question words
  36. 5.10. Clause final markers
  37. 5.11. Interjections
  38. 6. Noun phrases
  39. 6.1. Determiners
  40. 6.2. Genitive constructions
  41. 6.3. Numerals and quantifiers
  42. 6.4. Adjectives
  43. 6.5. Descriptive genitive phrases
  44. 6.6. Reduplicated verb modifying phrases
  45. 6.7. Coordination of noun phrases
  46. 7. Simple clauses
  47. 7.1. Basic word order in simple clauses
  48. 7.2. Identificational clauses
  49. 7.3. Copular clauses
  50. 7.4. Verbal clauses
  51. 7.5. Peripheral case roles
  52. 7.6. Adverbs in simple clauses
  53. 8. Serial verb constructions
  54. 8.1. Serials versus consecutives
  55. 8.2. Types of serial construction
  56. 8.3. Grammaticalized verbs
  57. 9. Aspect, tense, modality, and negation
  58. 9.1. Aspect
  59. 9.2. Tense
  60. 9.3. Modality
  61. 9.4. Negation
  62. 10. Transitivity and voice
  63. 10.1. Transitivity in Supyire
  64. 10.2. Detransitivization
  65. 10.3. Transitivization
  66. 10.4. The reflexive and transitivity
  67. 11. Complement clauses
  68. 11.1. Types of complement clause
  69. 11.2. Modality verbs
  70. 11.3. Manipulative verbs
  71. 11.4. Perception verbs
  72. 11.5. Verbs of speech and cognition
  73. 11.6. Sentential subjects
  74. 11.7. The status of complement clauses
  75. 12. Focus and topic constructions
  76. 12.1. Focus constructions
  77. 12.2. Topic constructions
  78. 13. Relative clauses
  79. 13.1. Basic structure and function of relative clauses
  80. 13.2. The coding of the relativized noun phrase
  81. 13.3. The coreferential noun phrase in the main clause
  82. 13.4. Non-referential relativized noun phrases
  83. 13.5. Clauses modifying referential indefinite noun phrases
  84. 13.6. Negative relative clauses
  85. 13.7. The syntactic status of relative clauses
  86. 14. Non-declarative speech acts
  87. 14.1. Manipulative speech acts
  88. 14.2. Questions
  89. 15. Interclausal connections
  90. 15.1. Adverbial clauses
  91. 15.2. Coordinate clauses
  92. 15.3. Clause chaining in narrative
  93. Appendix 1: Texts
  94. Appendix 2: Vocabulary
  95. Notes
  96. References
  97. Subject index