A Grammar of Jamsay /
Heath, Jeffrey
A Grammar of Jamsay / Jeffrey Heath. - 1 online resource (735 p.) - Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 45 0933-7636 ; .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sketch -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival -- morphology -- 5 Nominal and adjectival compounds -- 6 Noun phrase structure -- 7 Coordination -- 8 Postpositions and adverbials -- 9 Verbal derivation -- 10 Verbal inflection -- 11 VP and predicate structure -- 12 Comparatives -- 13 Focalization and interrogation -- 14 Relativization -- 15 Verb (VP) chaining and adverbial clauses -- 16 Conditional constructions -- 17 Complement and purposive clauses -- 18 Anaphora -- 19 Grammatical pragmatics -- 20 Dialects -- Backmatter
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Jamsay is the largest-population language among some twenty Dogon languages in Mali, West Africa. This is the first comprehensive grammar of any Dogon language, including a full tonology. The language is verb-final, with subject agreement on the verb and with no other case-marking. Its most striking feature is the morphosyntactically triggered use of stem-wide tone-contour overlays on nouns, verbs, and adjectives. All stems have a lexical tone contour such as H[igh], L[ow]-H, HL, or LHL with at least one H-tone. An exam of tone overlay is tone-dropping to stem-wide all-L. This is used for Perfective verbs (in the presence of a focalized constituent), and for a noun or adjective before an adjective. It is also used to mark the head NP in a relative clause (the head NP is not extracted, so this is the only direct indication of head NP status). The verb in a relative clause is morphologically a participle, agreeing with the head NP in humanness and number, rather than with the subject. "Intonation" is used grammatically. For example, NP conjunction 'X and Y' is expressed as X Y, without a conjunction, but with "dying-quail" intonation on both conjuncts.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110201130 9783110207224
10.1515/9783110207224 doi
Jamsay dialect--Grammar.
Afrika/Sprache.
Grammatik.
Mali/Sprache.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General.
Africa (Languages). Grammar. Mali (Languages).
PL8139.95.J35H43 2008 PL8139.95.J35
496.3 496/.3
A Grammar of Jamsay / Jeffrey Heath. - 1 online resource (735 p.) - Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 45 0933-7636 ; .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sketch -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival -- morphology -- 5 Nominal and adjectival compounds -- 6 Noun phrase structure -- 7 Coordination -- 8 Postpositions and adverbials -- 9 Verbal derivation -- 10 Verbal inflection -- 11 VP and predicate structure -- 12 Comparatives -- 13 Focalization and interrogation -- 14 Relativization -- 15 Verb (VP) chaining and adverbial clauses -- 16 Conditional constructions -- 17 Complement and purposive clauses -- 18 Anaphora -- 19 Grammatical pragmatics -- 20 Dialects -- Backmatter
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Jamsay is the largest-population language among some twenty Dogon languages in Mali, West Africa. This is the first comprehensive grammar of any Dogon language, including a full tonology. The language is verb-final, with subject agreement on the verb and with no other case-marking. Its most striking feature is the morphosyntactically triggered use of stem-wide tone-contour overlays on nouns, verbs, and adjectives. All stems have a lexical tone contour such as H[igh], L[ow]-H, HL, or LHL with at least one H-tone. An exam of tone overlay is tone-dropping to stem-wide all-L. This is used for Perfective verbs (in the presence of a focalized constituent), and for a noun or adjective before an adjective. It is also used to mark the head NP in a relative clause (the head NP is not extracted, so this is the only direct indication of head NP status). The verb in a relative clause is morphologically a participle, agreeing with the head NP in humanness and number, rather than with the subject. "Intonation" is used grammatically. For example, NP conjunction 'X and Y' is expressed as X Y, without a conjunction, but with "dying-quail" intonation on both conjuncts.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110201130 9783110207224
10.1515/9783110207224 doi
Jamsay dialect--Grammar.
Afrika/Sprache.
Grammatik.
Mali/Sprache.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General.
Africa (Languages). Grammar. Mali (Languages).
PL8139.95.J35H43 2008 PL8139.95.J35
496.3 496/.3