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A Grammar of Goemai Grammar of Goemai

:	Birgit Hellwig
:	A Grammar of Goemai Grammar of Goemai
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9783110238297
:	Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 253.10
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

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< >This is the first description of Goemai, a West Chadic language of Nigeria. Goemai is spoken in a language contact area, and this contact has shaped Goemai grammar to the extent that it can be considered a fairly untypical Chadic language. The grammar presents the structure of the present-day language, relates it to its diachronic sources, and adds a semantic perspective to the description.

< TRONG>Birgit Hellwig, University of Erfurt, Germany.

	Acknowledgements	6
	Table of contents	8
	List of tables, figures and maps	13
	Abbreviations and conventions	16
	Chapter 1. Introduction	20
	1. The Goemai language and its speakers	20
	1.1. Linguistic classification and history of documentation	20
	1.2. Historical and sociolinguistic background	23
	2. The fieldwork setting	26
	3. Language profile	27
	3.1. Typological sketch	27
	3.2. Diachronic origins	33
	4. Structure of the grammar	35
	Chapter 2. Phonology and tonology	36
	1. Phonemes, tonemes and orthography	36
	1.1. Consonants	38
	1.2. Secondary articulation	47
	1.3. Vowels	50
	1.4. Tones	61
	1.5. A note on the orthography	71
	2. Syllables, morphemes and words	73
	2.1. Segmental processes	73
	2.2. Suprasegmental processes	81
	3. Clauses	82
	4. Summary	84
	Chapter 3. Nouns and the noun phrase	86
	1. Noun phrase	86
	2. Nouns	89
	2.1. Common nouns: Nominal number	90
	2.2. Common nouns: Noun classification	97
	2.3. Names and titles	103
	2.4. Personal pronouns	106
	2.5. Diminutive	116
	3. Conjoining nouns and noun phrases	118
	3.1. Complex nominal heads	118
	3.2. Coordinated noun phrases	125
	4. Nominalization	131
	4.1. Nominalization of verbs	131
	4.1.1. Zero nominalization	131
	4.1.2. Bì nominalization	135
	4.1.3. Nyè- nominalization	137
	4.1.4. Noun-verb nominalization	138
	4.1.5. Summary and discussion	139
	4.2. Modifying construction	141
	4.3. Nominalization of verb phrases	151
	4.3.1. Participle nominalization	151
	4.3.2. Action nominalization	153
	4.4. Nominalization of clauses	154
	4.4.1. Clausal nominalization	154
	4.4.2. Manner / locative nominalization	157
	5. Other elements of the noun phrase	159
	5.1. Quantifier	160
	5.2. Associative plural	162
	5.3. Specific-indefinite article	164
	5.4. Demonstratives	169
	5.5. Locative anaphor	178
	5.6. Definite article	181
	6. Summary	184
	Chapter 4. Verbs and the verb phrase	187
	1. Verbs and the verb phrase: An overview	187
	1.1. Identifying verbs and the verb phrase	187
	1.2. Verb morphology	191
	1.3. Verb semantics	196
	2. Argument structure and lexical aspect	199
	2.1. A Chadic perspective	200
	2.2. Argument structure	202
	2.3. Lexical aspect	209
	3. Argument structure constructions	217
	3.1. Ditransitive construction	219
	3.2. Transitive patient / theme construction	222
	3.3. Transitive range construction	226
	3.4. Causative construction	233
	3.5. Intransitive construction	242
	4. Detransitivizing strategies	244
	4.1. Impersonal construction	245
	4.2. Participle	248
	4.3. Reflexive, reciprocal and reflexive-intransitive: Sék ‘body’	248
	5. Adding participants to an event	255
	5.1. Prepositions, prefixes, conjunctions and spatial nominals	255
	5.2. Serialization	261
	5.3. Juxtaposition	262
	6. Changing lexical aspect	263
	6.1. Cognate object and light verb constructions	263
	6.2. Serialization	266
	6.3. Modifying construction	267
	7. Summary	268
	Chapter 5. Adverbial phrases	271
	1. The adverbial phrase	271
	2. Adverbs	275
	2.1. Adverbs and their defining properties	275
	2.2. Semantic types	281
	2.2.1. Quantifiers	282
	2.2.2. Numerals	283
	2.2.3. Spatial adverbs	287
	2.2.4. Temporal adverbs	294
	2.2.5. Aspectual adverbs	295
	2.2.6. Manner	296
	2.2.7. Evaluation	298
	2.3. Adverbialization	298
	3. Ideophones	300
	4. Locative classes: Prepositions, prefixes, spatial nominals	304
	5. Summary	313
	Chapter 6. Closed word classes and other parts of speech	315
	1. Particles and conjunctions	315
	1.1. Tense / aspect / modality (TAM) particles	316
	1.2. Focus and emphasis particles	316
	1.3. Question particles	321
	1.4. Negation particles	324
	1.5. Discourse particles	326
	1.6. Clausal particles and conjunctions	328
	2. Clitics and affixes	329
	2.1. Clitics	329
	2.2. Affixes	333
	3. Interjections	333
	4. Interrogatives	336
	5. Summary	340