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A Grammar of Giziga: A Chadic Language of Far North Cameroon: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages / Africa, cartea 14

Autor Erin Shay
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 ian 2021
This is the first broad, detailed grammar of the Giziga language, which belongs to the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. The language is spoken in parts of the Far North Region of the Republic of Cameroon and can be divided into two dialects, Giziga and Northern Giziga, with about 80,000 native speakers in total. This volume describes the Giziga dialect, occasionally referring to the Northern variety, and aims to provide new information about this and other Afro-Asiatic languages for further research in linguistics, history, anthropology, sociology and related fields. The book will also be a tool helping Giziga speakers preserve their language, history and culture for future generations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004445901
ISBN-10: 9004445900
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages / Africa


Cuprins

Acknowledgments
List of Tables
Abbreviations

1 The Giziga Language
1Name, Classification, and Geographical Location
2Existing Literature
3Data Sources
4Notes on Data and Transcription
5Outline of the Grammar
6Conclusion

2 Phonology
1Introduction
2Consonants
3Vowels
4Syllable Structures and Syllabification
5Phonotactics
6Tone
7Conclusions

3 Verbs
1Introduction
2The Nature of the Underlying Form
3Structural Classes of Verbs
4Tone in the Verbal Piece
5Monosyllabic Verbs
6Bisyllabic Verbs
7Deriving the Infinitive Stem
8Deriving the Participial Stem
9Conclusions

4 Nouns, Pronouns and Noun Phrases
1Introduction
2Phonology of Nouns
3Vowel-Final Nouns
4Glide-Final Nouns
5Consonant-Final Nouns
6Derived Nouns
7Semantic Categories of Nouns
8Conjoining Noun Phrases
9Independent Pronouns
10The Noun Phrase
11Modifying Constructions
12Number in the Noun Phrase
13Conclusions

5 Coding Grammatical Relations
1Introduction
2Subject
3Object Suffixes
4Classes of Verbs
5Conclusions

6 Coding Semantic Relations
1Introduction
2Default Semantic Roles
3Conclusions

7 Tense and Aspect
1Introduction
2Perfective Aspect
3Imperfective Aspect
4Progressive Aspect
5Frequentative Aspect
6Past Tense
7Future Tense
8Conclusions

8 Marking the End of the Event
1Introduction
2Form and Distribution of the End-of-Event Marker
3Conclusions

9 Modality
1Introduction
2Deontic Modality
3Hypothetical Modality
4Coding Pretense
5Doubt in Truth
6The Modal Particle ‘be able to’
7Conclusions

10 Locative Predication
1Introduction
2Locative Verbs
3Ventive Extension -áwà
4Stative Predications
5Prepositions
6Spatial Specifiers
7Cardinal Directions
8Serial Verb Constructions
9Conclusions

11 Verbless Clauses
1Introduction
2Identificational Clauses
3Attributive Clauses
4Existential Clauses
5Possessive Clauses
6Temporal Distinctions in the Verbless Clause
7Conclusions

12 System of Reference
1Introduction
2Anaphoric Reference to Participants
3Remote Previous Mention
4Referential Object Clitic =a
5Anaphoric Reference to Location, Time, and Events
6Deictic Reference to Participants
7Unspecified Referent
8Conclusions

13 Interrogatives
1Introduction
2Polar Interrogatives
3Disjunctive Questions: X or Y?
4Content Interrogatives
5Questions in the Domain de dicto
6Conclusions

14 Negative Predication
1Introduction
2Negating the Verbless Clause
3Negation in the Verbal Clause
4Coding Tense in the Negative Clause
5Negating the Non-referential Subject
6Conclusions

15 Topics and Topicalization
1Introduction
2Topicalized Subject
3Topicalized Direct Object
4Topicalized Indirect Object
5Other Topicalized Constituents
6Non-constituent Topic
7Shift in Topic
8Conclusions

16 Contrastive Focus
1Introduction
2Focused Subject
3Focused Object
4Focused Predicate
5Contrastive Focus on Other Constituents
6Conclusions

17 Conjoining Clauses
1Introduction
2Parataxis (Asyndetic Conjunction)
3The Conjunction páɗ
4Sequential Conjunction
5Conjoining Affirmative and Negative Clauses
6Conclusions

18 Complement Clauses
1Introduction
2Comment on a Noun Phrase
3Comment on an Adjunct
4Comment on the Protasis
5Comment on the Purpose Clause
6Comment on the Matrix Clause
7Comment on a Complete Clause
8Interrogative as Comment
9Conclusions

19 Relative Clauses
1Introduction
2Form of the Relative Clause
3Tense and Aspect in the Relative Clause
4Coding the Role of the Relativized Constituent
5Conclusions

20 Conditional and Temporal Constructions
1Introduction
2Conditional/Temporal Protasis
3Conclusions

21 Complementation
1Introduction
2Complements of Verbs
3Conclusions

22 Coding Purpose and Reason
1Introduction
2Irrealis Purpose Adjuncts
3Reason Phrases
4Conclusions

23 Comparative Constructions
1Introduction
2Equal Comparison
3Unequal Comparison
4Conclusions

24 Adjuncts
1Introduction
2Temporal Adjuncts
3Manner Adjuncts
4Interjections and Terms of Address
5Intensifiers
6Ideophones
7Conclusions

25 Sample Texts
1Introduction
2The Story of Kay and Her Brother Gòló (Narrated by Saini Sikoua in 2006)
3A History of Muturua (Narrated by Saini Sikoua in 2007)

Appendix 1: A Compilation of Tables
Appendix 2: A Summary of Morphological Forms and Functions
Giziga-English Lexicon
English-Giziga Lexicon
References
Index

Notă biografică

Erin Shay is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author/co-author of grammars of four Chadic languages and many books and papers concerning linguistic forms and functions.