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9783110179408

A Grammar of Ma'Di

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    9783110179408

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    3110179407

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-11-01
  • Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

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Summary

This grammar provides one of the most detailed accounts available of the syntax of a Nilo-Saharan language. It fullydescribes some of the unusual characteristics of Ma'di, including the different word orders associated with different tenses, the particle-based modal and focus systems, the full range of adverbials, and the structure and meaning of the noun phrase. The grammar also describes the phonetics, phonology, morphology, and aspects of the lexicon of the language.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1(13)
The name of the language and of the people
1(1)
Ethnology
2(1)
Demography
3(1)
Genetic affiliation
4(1)
The sociolinguistic situation
4(1)
Ma'di in print and on the radio
5(2)
Dialects and clans
7(3)
Previous research relating to Ma'di
10(3)
An overview of Ma'di
13(14)
Sound structure
13(1)
Morphology and word classes
13(1)
Inflected, uninflected and directive verbs
13(2)
Arguments: subject and object
15(1)
Noun phrases
16(2)
Postposition phrases
18(1)
Non-verbal clauses
18(1)
Tense and aspect
19(1)
Modality
19(1)
Negation
20(1)
Subordinate clauses
21(2)
Focus strategies
23(2)
Questions
25(1)
Fixed final sentential elements
25(1)
Freely placed sentential elements
26(1)
Supra-sentential final elements
26(1)
Phonetics
27(20)
Consonants
27(6)
Vowels
33(1)
Syllable structure
34(1)
Restrictions on consonant-vowel sequences
35(2)
Tones
37(5)
Notes on utterance-level prosody
42(2)
Typical phonetic-level dialectal variations in cognates
44(1)
Phonetic games (tongue twisters)
45(2)
Phonology and Morphology
47(24)
Vowel harmony for the Advanced Tongue Root feature (ATR)
47(6)
Vowel assimilation and vowel deletion
53(4)
Tone deletion and tone raising
57(6)
Phonological processes affecting consonants
63(2)
The general morphology of Ma'di words
65(6)
Verbs
71(26)
Morphology of verbs
71(13)
Some syntactic classes of verbs
84(4)
The subject as the patient of a transitive predicate
88(9)
Other word classes
97(36)
Nouns
97(7)
Adjectives
104(3)
Postpositions
107(1)
Pronominals
108(15)
Determiners: articles and demonstratives
123(1)
Adverbials
124(4)
Numerals
128(4)
Interjections and other one-word utterances
132(1)
The uninflected verb
133(22)
The uninflected verb in comparison with other types of verb
133(1)
Subject
133(6)
Object
139(1)
Interpretation
140(6)
The `termination' constraint
146(6)
Dialectal variation: `Burulo
152(3)
The inflected verb
155(22)
The form of the verb
155(1)
Subject
156(4)
Object
160(4)
Interpretation
164(10)
Dialectal variation: 'Burulo
174(3)
The directive verb
177(14)
The directive verb
177(1)
Subject
178(4)
Object
182(1)
Interpretation
183(3)
The directive verb compared with the uninflected and inflected verbs
186(1)
Dialectal variation: 'Burulo
186(3)
The form which we call `directive' is called `subjunctive by Tucker
189(2)
Suffixed subordinate verbs
191(28)
The morphology of the suffixed verb
191(2)
Verbs suffixed with rε (and ga)
193(7)
Verbs suffixed with lε
200(3)
Verbs suffixed with dzc
203(5)
Verbs suffixed with -ka
208(5)
Other syntactic characteristics of clauses with suffixed verbs
213(2)
Dialectal variation
215(4)
Sentences with nonverbal predicates
219(40)
The predicates
219(16)
Subject and adjoined subject of the nonverbal predicate
235(7)
Sentential modifiers in the nonverbal clause
242(3)
Tense
245(1)
Sentences with nonverbal predicates as complements to verbs
246(6)
The use of dru with a nonverbal predicate
252(7)
Noun phrases
259(34)
Overview: the structure of noun phrases and their interpretation
259(6)
Bare indefinite
265(2)
zi-phrase (with the indefinite determiner zi)
267(4)
Personal Names
271(1)
Place names
272(1)
LOW-phrase (with the low tone suffix which is a specific definite determiner)
273(5)
Demonstrative phrases
278(1)
ri-phrase (distal discourse determiner ri)
279(3)
na-phrase (with proximal discourse determiner na)
282(6)
The addition of specificity to definite noun phrases
288(5)
Modification of the noun (including possession)
293(30)
Premodifiers
293(9)
Postmodifiers
302(13)
A `separable' modifier: the dri-phrase
315(8)
Nonsingular noun phrases
323(40)
The number of the subject
323(8)
Adjunction to pi
331(4)
Conjunction of noun phrases (and other constituents)
335(7)
Quantifiers
342(14)
Numerals
356(7)
Postpositon phrases and other location expressions
363(46)
Postpositions and their complements
363(1)
Syntactic locations of postposition phrases
363(6)
si: source
369(7)
Dri: temporary location (at, to)
376(1)
?a: possession
376(2)
ga: location at or to
378(3)
ni:benefactive
381(5)
tr: with
386(1)
a-phrases as locational expressions
386(2)
?a `in the centre of' (Ugandan Ma'di)
388(1)
Lexical nouns which express location
389(2)
`Grammatical' location nouns
391(9)
Location pronominals
400(3)
Modifiers of location expressions
403(6)
Verbs and clausal complements
409(42)
The syntactic location of clausal complements
409(1)
Lexical verbs which take full clausal complements
410(10)
Lexical verbs which take suffixed clausal complements
420(1)
Grammatical verbs (with full clausal complements) which express sequence
421(8)
Grammatical ni: consequence
429(1)
Grammatical mu and tfa: something is going to happen
430(4)
(Grammatical) fo: consequential non-occurrence
434(4)
(Grammatical) ko: prospective
438(1)
(Grammatical zi: simultaneous action
439(2)
(Grammatical) ri: past habitual
441(1)
(Grammatical) apa: something almost happened
442(3)
Coreference involving arguments in different clauses
445(6)
Modals and negation
451(24)
ra: affirmation, certainty
451(8)
wa: possibility
459(5)
kpe: non-possibility
464(2)
Negation: ko (nonpast) and koro (past)
466(9)
Adverbials
475(66)
Freely placed adverbials
475(24)
Fixed final adverbials
499(23)
Temporal nouns
522(6)
Sentence-initial adverbials
528(4)
Adverbials with a discourse function
532(4)
Subordinate clauses which function as adverbials
536(5)
Focus
541(66)
Order and realization of arguments, and information structure
541(3)
Null focus
544(4)
Focus particle pi
548(5)
Object focus particle ao
553(6)
Focus particle ni
559(5)
The object focus strategies compared
564(3)
Similarities between focus on an object and nonverbal predication
567(1)
The LOW-pi focus strategy
568(5)
The use of saa `even' in focus constructions
573(3)
Focus and the bare modal/negation particle
576(7)
Focus and Modals/negation/adverbial + ri
583(12)
Focus on the verb
595(8)
Sentences with multiple focus
603(4)
Questions
607(38)
Information (`wh-') questions
607(17)
Information (`wh-') questions in subordinate clauses
624(7)
Yes-no questions
631(9)
Implicatures of certain questioning strategies
640(5)
Lexicon
645(26)
Word list
645(7)
Some lexical classes of verbs
652(4)
Some lexical classes of nouns
656(12)
Colour adjectives
668(3)
Texts
671(58)
Hare, Caragule, and the water dance
671(7)
Fines and violations
678(51)
References 729(2)
Index 731

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