04034nam 2200697 450 991081486900332120240115122624.03-11-030107-510.1515/9783110301076(CKB)2550000001157377(EBL)1037928(OCoLC)867630968(SSID)ssj0001061064(PQKBManifestationID)11634182(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001061064(PQKBWorkID)11098449(PQKB)10035800(MiAaPQ)EBC1037928(DE-B1597)179355(OCoLC)979745561(DE-B1597)9783110301076(Au-PeEL)EBL1037928(CaPaEBR)ebr10811351(CaONFJC)MIL540423(EXLCZ)99255000000115737720131203h20132013 uy 0engurun#---|u|||txtccrA grammar of Tommo So /by Laura McPhersonBerlin ;Boston :De Gruyter Mouton,[2013]©20131 online resource (648 p.)Mouton grammar library (MGL) ;62Description based upon print version of record.3-11-030092-3 1-306-09172-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexTommo 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.Mouton grammar library ;62.Dogon languageGrammarDogon languagePhonologyDogon.Linguistic Typology.Malian Languages.Text Linguistics.Tone Language.Dogon languageGrammar.Dogon languagePhonology.496/.3McPherson Laura E(Laura Elizabeth)1715310MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814869003321A grammar of Tommo So4109835UNINA