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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791967503321

Autore

Childs George Tucker

Titolo

A grammar of Mani [[electronic resource] /] / by G. Tucker Childs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011

ISBN

3-11-026501-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 pages)

Collana

Mouton grammar library, , 0933-7636 ; ; 54

Disciplina

496/.345

Soggetti

Bullom So language - Grammar

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

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Conventions, abbreviations and symbols used -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Phonemic inventory -- Chapter 3: Prosody -- Chapter 4: Word categories -- Chapter 5: Some remarks on semantics -- Chapter 6: The noun class system -- Chapter 7: Verbal morphology -- Chapter 8: Derivational morphology -- Chapter 9: Compounding -- Chapter 10: Phrase-level syntax -- Chapter 11: Clause-level syntax -- Chapter 12: Subordination and coordination -- Chapter 13: Discourse and pragmatics -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a complete grammar of the Mani language spoken in the Samu (alternate French spelling "Samou") region of Sierra Leone andGuinea. The data come from a short pilot study conducted during July and August of 2000, and a larger study taking place over two years (the Mani Documentation Project or MDP, 2004-06, and two brief returns in April 2009 and February 2010). That the Mani language will soon disappear is certain; just as certain is that this grammar will be the only one ever written.