A grammar of Tommo So / / by Laura McPherson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814869003321
• Autore: McPherson Laura E (Laura Elizabeth)
• 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
• 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.

Foundation for integrating employee health activities for active duty personnel in the Department of Defense / / Gary Cecchine ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910220158503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Monica, CA, : RAND, 2009
• ISBN: 0-8330-4704-3; 1-282-08164-0; 9786612081644
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiv, 82 pages) : color illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): CecchineGary
• Disciplina: 355.3/450973
• Soggetti: Soldiers - Medical care - United States; Medical policy - United States; United States Armed Forces Medical care
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Preface; Contents; Tables; Figures; Summary; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE- Introduction; The DoD Work Environment; Purpose of the Study; How This Monograph Is Organized; CHAPTER TWO- Project Goal, Methods, and Definitions; Employee Health Care Encounters in DoD; What Are Occupational Health and Preventive Medicine in DoD?; Civilian Definition of an Integrated Employee Health System; Defining an Integrated Employee Health System for DoD; CHAPTER THREE- Safety and Occupational Health in the Department of Defense; Historical Perspective; Safety and Occupational and Other Employee Health Policy Safety and Occupational Health Organization; Summary and Conclusions; CHAPTER FOUR- DoD Information Technology Systems Related to Safety and Occupational Health; IT Requirements in an Integrated Employee Health System; Organization of Information Management and Information Technology Within the Military Health System; IT Systems for Health Care Data (in Garrison); IT Systems for Periodic Health Assessment Forms; IT Systems for Health Care Data During Deployment; IT Systems for Occupational and Environmental Exposures; IT Systems for Troop Location Summary and Conclusions; CHAPTER FIVE- Civilian Approaches to Integration; Cases and Methods; Motivation Behind Integration Efforts; Design: Bringing Health Promotion into the Work Site; Program Practice: Changing Practices Across Multiple Sites; Outcomes: Measuring the Effects on Health and Health Care Costs; Summary and Conclusions; CHAPTER SIX- Observations and Conclusions; Observation: Leadership Attention Is an Important Aspect of Civilian Integrated Employee Health Programs; Observation: Coordination Across Organizational Boundaries Is Essential to a More Integrated System Observation: Data Will Be Needed for Post-Deployment Health Studies; Observation: Multiple IT Systems Contain Individual Health Data; Conclusions; APPENDIX A- Time Line of Safety and Occupational Health Policies and Programs, 1970-2007; APPENDIX B- Semistructured Interviews with DoD Officials; References
• Sommario/riassunto: The authors describe current Department of Defense safety and occupational health programs and health information systems, as well as employee health programs outside of DoD to provide a foundation for considering a more integrated Department of Defense employee health program.