LEADER 04909nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910780733203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-85742-1 010 $a3-11-021841-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110218411 035 $a(CKB)2480000000005107 035 $a(EBL)894013 035 $a(OCoLC)806038746 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703626 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12295473 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703626 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10691502 035 $a(PQKB)11286687 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC894013 035 $a(DE-B1597)36339 035 $a(OCoLC)795008150 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110218411 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL894013 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10582242 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL416992 035 $a(PPN)161554210 035 $a(EXLCZ)992480000000005107 100 $a20120809d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA grammar of Wandala$b[electronic resource] /$fby Zygmunt Frajzyngier 210 $aBerlin ;$aBoston $cDe Gruyter Mouton$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (736 p.) 225 1 $aMouton grammar library,$x0933-7636 ;$v47 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-021840-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tAbbreviations and typographical conventions -- $tChapter 1. Introduction -- $tChapter 2. Phonology -- $tChapter 3. Morphological marking of syntactic organization -- $tChapter 4. Lexical categories and morphological processes -- $tChapter 5. Noun phrase -- $tChapter 6. Verbal roots and stems -- $tChapter 7. Grammatical relations -- $tChapter 8. Verbal extensions and semantic relations -- $tChapter 9. Locative extensions -- $tChapter 10. Locative predication -- $tChapter 11. Verbless predications -- $tChapter 12. Adjunct phrases -- $tChapter 13. Aspect -- $tChapter 14. Tense -- $tChapter 15. Mood -- $tChapter 16. Negation -- $tChapter 17. Interrogative -- $tChapter 18. Comment clause -- $tChapter 19. Topicalization -- $tChapter 20. Focus -- $tChapter 21. Reference system -- $tChapter 22. Paratactic and sequential clauses -- $tChapter 23. Complementation -- $tChapter 24. Conditional and temporal sentences -- $tChapter 25. Adjunct clauses -- $tChapter 26. The relative clause -- $tChapter 27. Discourse characteristics -- $tChapter 28. Sample texts -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aWandala is a hitherto undescribed Central Chadic language spoken in Northern Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria. The Grammar of Wandala describes, in a non-aprioristic approach, phonology, morphology, syntax, and all functional domains grammaticalized in the language. The grammatical structure of Wandala is quite different from the structure of other Chadic languages described thus far in both the formal means and the functions that have been grammaticalized. The grammar provides proofs for the postulated hypotheses concerning forms and functions. The grammar is written in a style accessible to linguists working within different theoretical frameworks. The phonology is characterized by a rich consonantal system, a three vowel system, and a two tone system. The language has abundant vowel insertion rules and a vowel harmony system. Vowel deletion marks phrase-internal position, and vowel-insertion marks phrase-final position. The two rules allow the parsing of the clause into constituents. The language has three types of reduplication of verbs, two of which code aspectual and modal distinctions. The negative paradigms of verbs differ from affirmative paradigms in the coding of subject. The pronominal affixes and extensive system of verbal extensions code the grammatical and semantic relations within the clause. Wandala has unusual clausal structure, in that in a pragmatically neutral verbal clause, there is only one nominal argument, either the subject or the object. These arguments can follow a variety of constituents. The grammatical role of that argument is coded by inflectional markers on the verb and most interestingly, on whatever lexical or grammatical morpheme precedes the constituent. The markers of grammatical relations added to verbs are different for different classes of verbs. 410 0$aMouton grammar library ;$v47. 606 $aWandala language$xGrammar 610 $aGrammaticalization. 610 $aLanguage Typology. 610 $aNon-Indo-European Languages. 615 0$aWandala language$xGrammar. 676 $a493.7 676 $a493/.7 686 $aEP 17031$2rvk 700 $aFrajzyngier$b Zygmunt$0168843 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780733203321 996 $aA grammar of Wandala$93703604 997 $aUNINA