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Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) Language and Culture: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages / Africa, cartea 8

Autor James Essegbey
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 iul 2019
This is the first comprehensive description of Tutrugbu(Nyangbo-nyb), a Ghana Togo Mountain(gtm) language of the Kwa family. It is based on a documentary corpus of different genre of linguistic and cultural practices gathered during periods of immersion fieldwork. Tutrugbu speakers are almost all bilingual in Ewe, another Kwa language. The book presents innovative analyses of phenomena like Advanced Tongue Root and labial vowel harmony, noun classes, topological relational verbs, the two classes of adpositions, obligatory complement verbs, multi-verbs in a single clause, and information structure. This grammar is unparalleled in including a characterization of culturally defined activity types and their associated speech formulae and routine strategies. It should appeal to linguists interested in African languages, language documentation and typology.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004396982
ISBN-10: 9004396985
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages / Africa


Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and Tables
1 Introduction1.0The People1.1Classification1.2History1.3The Multilingual Nyangbo Community1.4The Roadmap for This Grammar
2 Phonology2.0Introduction2.1Segmental Inventory2.2Syllable Structure2.3Phonological Processes2.4Tone2.5Conclusion
3 Morphology3.0Introduction3.1Reduplication3.2Inflection3.3Noun Classes3.4Derivation3.5Compounding
4 The Noun Phrase4.0Introduction4.1The Simple Noun Phrase4.2Complex Noun Phrase
5 The Verb Phrase5.0Introduction5.1Lexical Aspect5.2Tense Aspect Mood5.3Argument Structure
6 Adpositional Phrases and Locative Constructions6.0Introduction6.1The Basic Locative Construction (BLC)6.2The Verbs6.3Postpositions6.4Prepositions
7 Constructions7.0Introduction7.1Copula Construction7.2Descriptive Constructions7.3Serial Verb Constructions (SVC)7.4Coordinate Clausal Constructions7.5Subordinate Clauses
8 Sentence Types8.0Introduction8.1Declaratives8.2Interrogatives8.3Imperatives
9 Information Structure9.0Introduction9.1Topic9.2Focus9.3Contrastive Topic9.4Cleft Construction9.5Conclusion
10 Routine Activities10.0Introduction10.1Greetings10.2Spinning Yarn10.3Female Initiation Rite10.4Funeral Rites
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Notă biografică

James Essegbey, Ph.D. (1999), Leiden University, is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures at the University of Florida. He is interested in descriptive, documentary and theoretical linguistics, especially in the domain of syntax, semantics and pragmatics; contact linguistics; language and culture; Kwa languages of West Africa, especially Gbe (i.e. Ewe, Gen, Aja and Fon), Akan, and Ghana-Togo Mountain languages; and creole studies. He has worked on the influence of the Gbe languages on the creoles of Suriname, and the description and documentation of Nyangbo. More recently, he has been working on the description and documentation of Dwang (a north Guang language), and Animere (another GTM language).