TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heath,Jeffrey
TI  - A Grammar of Jamsay
T2  - Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ,
SN  - 9783110201130
AV  - PL8139.95.J35H43 2008PL8139.95.J35 
U1  - 496.3496/.3 
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Jamsay dialect
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Afrika/Sprache
KW  - Grammatik
KW  - Mali/Sprache
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Africa (Languages)
KW  - Mali (Languages)
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207224
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110207224
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110207224/original
ER  -