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A Grammar of Mani Grammar of Mani

:	G. Tucker Childs
:	A Grammar of Mani Grammar of Mani
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9783110265019
:	Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 235.00
:

:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

:	289
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This book provides a complete grammar of the Mani language spoken in the Samu (alternate French spelling“Samou”) region of Sierra Leone and Guinea. The data come from a short pilot study conducted in 2000, and a larger study taking place over two years 2004-2006. That the Mani language will soon disappear is certain; just as certain is that this grammar will be the only one ever written.

< >G. Tucker Childs, Portland State University, USA.

	Acknowledgements	8
	Dedication	9
	Preface	10
	Table of contents	14
	Conventions, abbreviations and symbols used	18
	Conventions	18
	Abbreviations	19
	Chapter 1: Introduction	22
	1. Project location	23
	2. Mani nomenclature	26
	3. Demographics	27
	4. Classification	28
	5. Historical background	32
	6. Pilot study: Language assessment survey (2000)	34
	7. The Mani Documentation Project (2004–06)	37
	8. Typological overview	38
	Chapter 2: Phonemic inventory	42
	1. The consonants of Mani	42
	2. The vowels of Mani	52
	3. Syllabic nasals	55
	Chapter 3: Prosody	58
	1. Nasalization	58
	2. Syllable structure	59
	3. Syllable-structure changes	60
	4. Tone	65
	5. Intonation	70
	Chapter 4: Word categories	74
	1. Nouns	74
	2. Names	76
	3. Pronouns	77
	3.1 Personal pronouns	78
	3.2 Noun class pronouns	79
	3.3 Demonstrative pronouns	80
	3.4 Indefinite and locative pronouns	83
	3.5 Reflexivity and reciprocity	87
	4. Numbers	88
	5. Adjectives and related forms	92
	5.1 Adjectives	92
	5.2 Demonstrative adjectives	96
	5.3 Articles	98
	5.4 Quantifiers and ordinal numbers	100
	6. Verbs and verbal forms	103
	7. The Copula	107
	8. Adverbs	116
	9. Ideophones	118
	10. Adpositions	122
	11. Conjunctions	123
	12. Particles	125
	Chapter 5: Some remarks on semantics	128
	1. Family relations	128
	2. Mental and bodily states	131
	3. Time words	132
	4. Mood	133
	Chapter 6: The noun class system	138
	1. The w. class	140
	2. The .a class (human plurals)	142
	3. The le class	143
	4. The sa class (animal plurals) and animate concord	145
	5. The nye class	147
	6. The ta class (inanimate plurals)	149
	7. The ma class	150
	8. The noun-like indefinite pronoun pe	152
	9. Final comments on the noun class system	153
	Chapter 7: Verbal morphology	156
	1. Habitual	159
	2. Perfective	162
	3. Imperfective	165
	4. Past	168
	5. Hortative	173
	6. Negative	175
	7. Co-occurrence of ka and ce (summarized)	181
	8. Other verbal matters	182
	Chapter 8: Derivational morphology	188
	1. Verb extensions	188
	1.1 Benefactive	189
	1.2 Causative	191
	1.3 Stative	192
	1.4 Completive	194
	1.5 Middle	197
	1.6 Pluractional reduplication	200
	1.7 Final comments on verb extensions	202
	2. Other derivational processes	204
	2.1 Adjectivalization	204
	2.2 Nominalization	205
	2.3 Masculine and feminine nouns / animals	206
	2.4 Adverbialization	206
	Chapter 9: Compounding	208
	Chapter 10: Phrase-level syntax	212
	1. The noun phrase	212
	1.1 Possession	215
	1.2 Attributive constructions	219
	1.3 Distributive	220
	2. The verb phrase	221
	2.1 i Insertion	221
	2.2 Split predicates, the S-Aux-O-V-X syntagm	228
	2.3 The Inner VP	232
	3. The adpositional phrase	233
	Chapter 11: Clause-level syntax	236
	1. Questions	236
	2. Focus	238
	3. Comparative constructions	243
	4. Topicalization	245
	Chapter 12: Subordination and coordination	248
	1. Embedding	248
	2. Relativization	249
	3. Subordinate clauses	252
	4. Coordination	255
	Chapter 13: Discourse and pragmatics	256
	1. Discourse particles	256
	2. Salutations, politeness formulae, terms of address	257
	Appendices	262
	Appendix 1: Texts	262
	“How to fish on the open sea”	262
	A section from a Mani history	265
	“Tomro and the hippopotamus”	265
	A Mani lullaby	267
	Some Mani proverbs	268
	Some Mani insults	269
	Appendix 2: Pedagogical materials	271
	Sample pages from a Mani primer (Childs 2007)	271
	Story from a Mani primer	272
	Notes	274
	References	278
	Index	290