Research Catalog

Title

Aspects of Chimpoto grammar / Robert Botne ; in collaboration with Margaret P. Mwingira.

Author

Botne, Robert Dale Olson, 1950-

Publication

Muenchen : LINCOM GmbH, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mwingira, Margaret P. (Margaret Philip)

Description

xiii, 283 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

LINCOM studies in African linguistics ; 98

Uniform Title

LINCOM studies in African linguistics ; 98.

Subjects

• Texts
• Bantu languages
• Black author
• Tanzania > Languages
• African languages
• Mpoto language > Grammar
• Mpoto language > Texts

Genre/Form

Texts.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 287).

Contents

List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Aspects of Grammar -- The Sound System -- The vowel system -- Vowel assimilation -- Glide formation -- Vowel deletion -- Vowel lengthening -- Vowel devoicing -- Consonant inventory -- Nasals -- 1-deletion -- A note on variation -- Syllable structure -- Accent -- Nouns -- The noun class system -- Nominal genders -- Nominal derivation -- Evaluative nouns -- Compound nominals -- Reduplicated nominals -- Noun Modification and the Noun Phrase -- Agreement -- Associative -a -- Demonstratives -- Adjectives -- Comparatives -- Superlatives -- Quantifiers and enumeratives -- Numerals -- Noun phrase word order -- Conjunctive, comitative ni -- Intensification -- Pronouns -- Personal pronouns -- Intensifying pronouns -- Relative pronouns -- Possessive pronouns : AGR + POSS -- Possessive constructions : AGR-a-ka + PRO/N -- Comitative pronominal construction : na-AGR-u -- Concessive pronouns -- Partitive pronouns -- The Verb -- The verb core -- Simple verb roots -- Complex radicals : Root expansion -- Complex radicals : Reduplication -- The base : Verb extensions -- Transitivizing -ih- -- Passivization -- Verb (lexical) aspect -- Verbs -va 'be, become' and -y- 'be' -- Morphological structure of the verbal word -- Person/number-marking -- Reflexive marker -- Aspect, Tense, Modality, Mood, and Negation -- Aspect -- Aspectualizing constructions : Auxiliary verb + Infinitive -- Tense, modality, and sequencing markers -- Mood -- Negation -- Grammatical Relations and Basic Syntax -- Basic constituent order -- Object Marking -- Verbal nouns as subjects -- Verbal nouns with a gerundive function -- Locatives as subjects and pseudo-subjects -- Verbless predication -- Subordinate clauses and coordinate constructions -- Relative clauses -- Temporal clauses -- Locative clauses -- Purpose clauses -- Conditional clauses -- Conditional-concessive clauses -- Reason or cause clauses -- Other ngati clause types -- Quasi-participial clauses -- Coordinate verb constructions -- Clausal ellipsis -- Information Structure : Topicalization and Focus -- Topicalization -- Focus -- Focus-marking adverbial clauses -- Stage-setting (ss) theme -- Question formation -- Yes/no questions -- "Tag" questions -- Interrogatives -- Embedded question clauses -- Invariable Particles and Ideophones -- Basic particles -- Interjections and exclamations -- Discourse particles -- Ideophones -- Miscellaneous : Greetings, idiomatic expressions, adages, and a proverb -- Greetings and leave-takings -- Idiomatic expressions -- Adages -- A proverb -- Texts -- Kutowola : Marrying -- Cha kuteleka wembi : How to make beer -- Ndava kiki Liyani likwela munani mumikongo : Why Monkey climbs high in the trees -- Anatomy of a narrative text : Ling'wina ni vana vambomba vaayohwini hee vakolongo : A crocodile and the girls who didn't listen to their elders -- Lexicon -- Chimpoto : English -- English : Chimpoto Index -- Appendices -- Kin paradigms -- Motion verbs -- References.

Call Number

ReCAP 20-2557

ISBN

• 9783862889600
• 3862889602

OCLC

1102539049

Author

Botne, Robert Dale Olson, 1950- author.

Title

Aspects of Chimpoto grammar / Robert Botne ; in collaboration with Margaret P. Mwingira.

Publisher

Muenchen : LINCOM GmbH, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

LINCOM studies in African linguistics ; 98

LINCOM studies in African linguistics ; 98.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 287).

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Mwingira, Margaret P. (Margaret Philip), author.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 20-2557