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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453373203321

Autore

McPherson Laura (Laura Elizabeth)

Titolo

A grammar of Tommo So / / by Laura McPherson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

3-11-030107-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (648 p.)

Collana

Mouton grammar library (MGL) ; ; 62

Disciplina

496/.3

Soggetti

Dogon language - Grammar

Dogon language - Phonology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical sketch -- 3. Segmental phonology -- 4. Tone -- 5. Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival morphology -- 6. Nominal and adjectival compounds -- 7. Noun phrase structure -- 8. Ideophones and onomatopoeia -- 9. Coordination -- 10. Postpositions and adverbials -- 11. Verbal derivation -- 12. Verbal inflection -- 13. VP and predicate structure -- 14. Comparatives -- 15. Focalization and interrogation -- 16. Relativization and clause nominalization -- 17. Conditional constructions -- 18. Clause chaining and subordination -- 19. Quotative constructions -- 20. Anaphora -- 21. Grammatical pragmatics -- 22. Dialects -- 23. Texts -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Tommo So is a Dogon language with approximately 60,000 speakers in Mali, West Africa. As only the second full grammatical description of a Dogon language, this volume is a critical resource for solving the mystery of Dogon's genetic affiliation with other languages in Africa. Tommo So is an SOV language with isolating nominal morphology and agglutinative verbal morphology; suffixes on the verb mark tense/aspect/negation as well as subject agreement. The phonology is sensitive to levels of verbal morphology in that variable vowel harmony applies less frequently as one moves to outer layers of the morphology.



The tone system of Tommo So is of typological interest in both its phonological and syntactic instantiations. Phonologically, it is a two-tone system of H and L, but these specified tones contrast with a surface-underspecified tone. Grammatically, the lexical tone of a word is often overwritten by syntactically-induced overlays. For example, an inalienable noun's tone will be replaced with L if it is possessed by a non-pronominal possessor, and by either H or HL if the possessor is pronominal. The language has also innovated a series of locative quasi-verbs and focus particles sensitive to pragmatic factors like certainty.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786368303321

Autore

Waldman John

Titolo

Still the same hawk [[electronic resource] ] : reflections on nature and New York / / edited by John Waldman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Empire State Editions, 2012

ISBN

0-8232-4991-3

0-8232-5055-5

0-8232-4990-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WaldmanJohn

Disciplina

508.7471

Soggetti

Natural history - New York (State) - New York

New York (N.Y.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Monarchs of the Urban Mind""; ""Welcome to the H2O Regionâ€? Your Second Address!""; ""Public Place, Brooklyn""; ""Corner Garden""; ""A Land Ethic for the City""; ""Can Naturalists and Urbanists Find Happiness Together?""; ""Can You Eat in Soup?""; ""The Dark Side;  or, My Time Spent in the Nature That People Would Rather Not Think About""; ""The Futures of New York""; ""Imagination, Beauty, and the Urban Land Ethic""; ""Nature in New York""; ""Contributors""

Sommario/riassunto

Some of our best thinkers on urban nature turn to the Big Apple in this



highly original collection of new essays on why nature matters to New Yorkers.