The making of a mixed language : the case of Ma'a/Mbugu / / Maarten Mous

• Autore: Mous Maarten
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Disciplina: 496/.5
• Soggetto topico: Mbugu language - Grammar
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-229) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Making of a Mixed Language -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- Acknowledgements -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 The people and their language -- 1.2 Earlier descriptions and history of Ma 'á studies -- 1.3 Source of data, fieldwork -- 1.4 Areas of settlement of the Ma 'á/Mbugu and clan affiliation -- 1.5 Multilingualism and language attitude -- 1.6 A sample of Mbugu language materia -- 1.7 Properties of the parallel lexicon -- 1.8 New insights in this work -- 1.9 Organisation of this book -- 2 HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND -- 2.1 Oral History -- 2.2 Historical information from the parallel lexicon -- 2.3 Usambara mountains: Shambaa, Seuta Bantu, Swahili -- 2.4 Maasai -- 2.5 Gorwaa and Mbugwe -- 2.6 Pare -- 2.7 The Taita connection -- 2.8 Old Kenyan Cushitic: Eastern Cushitic, Dahalo -- 2.9 Chronology through a study of lexical domains -- 2.10 Reconstructing the history: possible scenarios -- 3 LINGUISTIC HISTORY -- 3.1 The issues and the debate -- 3.2 Absence of drastic recent linguistic developments -- 3.3 History of the lateral fricatives in Ma'á (Inner Mbugu) -- 3.4 Truncation rule -- 3.5 Remnants of non-Bantu grammar -- 3.6 Ma' a non-Bantu causatives -- 3.7 Non-Bantu nominal endings -- 3.8 Locatives and other non-Bantu frozen grammatical elements -- 3.9 The origin off unction words -- 3.10 Shift or gradual bantuisation. -- 3.11 Code-switching as a model for Ma'á -- 3.12 Mixed languages as a challenge to historical linguistics -- 4 PHONOLOGY -- 4.1 Consonants -- 4.2 Spirantisation in velars -- 4.3 Prenasalised obstruents -- 4.4 Vowels -- 4.5 Tone -- 4.6 Syllable structure -- 4.7 Word structure and phonotactics -- 5 THE VERB -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.1.1 Vowel coalescence, i-initial stems, and morphotonology. ; 5.1.2 Subject and object prefixes -- 5.1.3 Other verbal prefixes, "tense" and polarity -- 5.1.4 Relative marker -- 5.1.5 The inflectional final vowel -- 5.1.6 The a/e alternation -- 5.1.7 Imperatives -- 5.1.8 Clitics -- 5.2 The "tenses -- 5.3 Combinations of "tense" prefixes -- 5.4 The negative "tenses -- 5.5 Copula and verbs "to be -- 5.6 Verbal derivation -- 6 THE NOUN -- 6.1 The noun class system -- 6.2 The morphophonology of the noun class prefixes -- 6.3 Noun class pairings -- 6.4 Derivation -- 6.5 Frozen suffixes -- 6.6 Question nouns -- 6.7 Names -- 7 ADJECTIVES AND OTHER NOMINAL MODIFIERS -- 7.1 Adjectives -- 7.2 Genetive and relative pronouns -- 7.3 Possessives -- 7.4 Demonstratives -- 7.5 Quantifiers -- 8 INVARIABLES OR OTHER WORDS -- 8.1 Dependent invariables: Prepositions -- 8.2 Independent invariables -- 8.3 Independent personal pronouns -- 8.4 Higher numbers and other invariable modifiers -- 9 NOTES ON SYNTAX, CODE-SWITCHING AND TEXTS -- 9.1 Syntax -- 9.2 Set sentences -- 9.3 Code-switching -- 9.4 A sample of code-switching -- 9.5 Texts -- NOTES -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: MBUGU-ENGLISH ETYMOLOGICAL LEXICON -- ENGLISH INDEX TO THE LEXICON -- INDEX.
• Titolo autorizzato: The making of a mixed language
• ISBN: 1-283-32770-8; 9786613327703; 90-272-7524-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816901903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Creole language library ; ; v. 26.