A Grammar of Mina

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Grammar of Mina

Zygmunt Frajzyngier Eric Johnston(Autor*in)

De Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 3. Juni 2011

XVIII, 509 Seiten

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Intro
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
1. Name, classification, and geographical location
2. Outline of Mina grammar
Chapter 2: Phonology
1. Introduction
2. The consonantal system
3. The vowel system
4. Syllabification
5. Glide formation
6. Tone
7. Conclusions
Chapter 3 : The structure of the noun phrase
1. Introduction
2. The defining features of the category noun
3. Noun stems
4. Derivational morphemes
5. Modifying constructions
6. Possessive pronouns
7. Possession, kinship terms, and the addressee
8. Attributive functions through the genitive marker
9. Headless genitive constructions
10. Grammaticalization of the preposition
11. Modification through juxtaposition of two nouns
12. Modification through the relative marker
13. Modification by intensifiers
14. Modifying constructions and the preposition I?´
15. Plural formation
16. Coordinating construction through the associative
17. Modification by quantifiers
18. End-of-event marker and quantifiers
19. Coding of the exclusion of other participants
20. Conclusions
Chapter 4: The verb and its forms
1. Introduction
2. Verbal stem
3. The stative form of the verb
4. Verb reduplication in the relative clause
5. A non-productive suffix ù
6. Conclusions
Chapter 5: Argument coding
1. Introduction
2. The category subject
3. Existential predicates
4. Subject pronouns
5. Possessive subject pronouns
6. Pleonastic subjects
7. Arguments of the transitive verb: coding the direct object
8. Object coding in hypothetical and deontic moods and in past tense
9. Absence of an object
10. Coding of object in sequential clauses
11. Pronominal objects
12. Coding coreferentiality of subject and object
13. Coding the internal state of the subject
14. Argument structure of verbs of emotional states
15. Dative
16. Coding reciprocity
17. Conclusions
Chapter 6: Coding the event from the point of view of subject
1. The form of the point of view of subject marker
2. The function of the point of view of the subject
3. Point of view of the subject and speaker's empathy
4. Conclusions
Chapter 7: Locative predication and locative complements
1. Introduction
2. Functions of coding means in locative predication
3. Genitive construction in the locative phrase
4. Locative deictics and anaphors
5. Prepositional form of pronouns
6. Preposition k?´
7. Preposition mbéh
8. Preposition ?
9. Coding the locative source
10. Preposition g?'dá? 'under'
11. Preposition ndò? 'bottom, inside'
12. Prepositions dùw?´? 'back' and k?'b?´m, 'in front'
13. [+human] nouns as locatives and the preposition r
14. From "hand" to preposition: the grammaticalization of r
15. Direction toward the indirect object: the auxiliary rá
16. Conclusions
Chapter 8: Adjuncts
1. Introduction
2. The topical adjunct
3. The associative phrase
4. Associative through adverbial expressions
5. Adverbs yà and y?´m 'also'
6. Adverbs of time
7. Adverbs of reason
8. Adverbs of manner
9. The scope of the adverb tátà 'alone, only'
10. Adding a beneficiary
11. Adverb bà 'again'
12. Cognate adverbs
13. Conclusions
Chapter 9: Goal-orientation extension
1. Introduction
2. The form of the goal orientation extension
3. Function of the goal orientation extension
4. Grammaticalization of the goal orientation marker
5. Conclusions
Chapter 10: Tenses
1. Introduction
2. Future tenses
3. Independent past tense
4. The independent past-plural tense
5. Unmarked tense/aspect
6. Dependent past tense
7. Conclusions
Chapter 11: Aspects
1. Introduction
2. Independent habitual
3. Dependent habitual
4. Perfect
5. The terminative aspect
6. The completive aspect
7. The intentional aspect
8. Verbs with inherent tense and aspectual values
9. The iterative aspect
10. Inceptive aspect
11. The unmarked aspect
12. Conclusions
Chapter 12: Modality
1. Introduction
2. Epistemic modality
3. Emotive modality
4. Imperative
5. Polite orders
6. Debitive mood
7. Coding the mood of obligation through the infinitive
8. Coding the mood of obligation through possessive constructions
9. Coding the mood of obligation through modal adverbs
10. Comment clause
11. Coding counterexpectation
12. Conclusions
Chapter 13: End-of-event coding
1. Introduction
2. The form and syntax of the end-of-event marker
3. The function of the end-of-event marker
4. The end-of-event marker in protasis clauses
5. Evidence from the absence of the end-of-event marker
6. The end-of-event and the negative clause
7. Grammaticalization sources of the end-of-event marker
8. Conclusions
Chapter 14: Negation
1. Common formal characteristics of negation
2. Coding the scope of negation
3. Negation of verbless clauses
4. Negation and future tenses
5. Negation and the dependent aspect
6. Negation of the perfect
7. Negation of the habitual
8. Prohibitive
9. Negation with interrogative
10. Negative adverb wílkíl 'fail'
11. Conclusions
Chapter 15: Verbless clauses
1. Introduction
2. Equational clauses
3. Identificational clauses
4. Equational clauses with possessive predicate
5. Time coding in equational clause
6. Adjectival predicates
7. Plurality coding through reduplication
8. Possessive propositions: X has Y
9. The locative proposition: X is located at Y
10. Existential predication
11. Conclusions
Chapter 16: Interrogative clauses
1. Introduction
2. Questions about the truth
3. Questions about the truth with presuppositions
4. Specific questions
5. The categoriality of interrogative markers
6. Conclusions
Chapter 17: Reference system
1. Introduction
2. Phrase internal and phrase final forms of pronouns and deteminers
3. Deixis
4. Full noun phrase as subject
5. Use of pronouns in reference system
6. Full noun phrase as the object
7. Object coding in non-finite clauses
8. The domain of known referent
9. The domain of deduced referent
10. The remote previous mention marker nákáhà
11. Coding indefiniteness
12. Locative anaphora
13. Entity anaphor and switch reference
14. Conclusions
Chapter 18: Focus constructions
1. Introduction
2. Focus on the subject
3. Focus on the object
4. Focus on object pronouns
5. Focus on an adverbial expression
6. Focus on the predicate
7. Conclusions
Chapter 19: Topicalization
1. Introduction
2. Establishing the topic of a story or narrative
3. Establishing the topic within a discourse
4. Borrowed markers of topicalization
5. Topicalization of pronominal subjects
6. Non-propositional topics
7. Aspect in the comment on the topic
8. Topicalization of the object
9. Topicalization of adjuncts
10. Conclusions
Chapter 20: Parataxis
1. Introduction
2. Asyndetic conjoining
3. Conjunction míd
4. Sequential events coding through the auxiliary nd 'go'
4. The propositional relator ko
5. Conclusions
Chapter 21: Complementation
1. Introduction
2. Complements of verbs of saying
3. Complements of volitional verbs
4. Object-to-object raising
5. Complements of verbs of perception
6. Complements of verbs of knowing
7. Infinitival complements
7. Conclusions
Chapter 22: Temporal and conditional clauses
1. Introduction
2. Temporal protasis
3. Temporal protasis coding through demonstratives
4. Temporal apodosis
5. Specific time relationships
6. Conditional clauses
7. Conditional apodosis
8. Conclusions
Chapter 23: Purpose, reason, and conclusion clauses
1. Introduction
2. Purpose clause
3. Reason clauses
4. Conclusion clause
5. Conclusions
Chapter 24: Comparative constructions
1. Introduction
2. Equal comparisons
3. Unequal equational clause predicates
4. Unequal comparison with verbal predicates
5. Conclusions
Chapter 25: Relative clause
1. Introduction
2. Clause-final demonstratives
3. Relativization of the object
4. Relativization of the dative
5. Relativization of the instrumental
6. Relativization of possessor
7. Relativization of the topic of a verb of saying
8. Relativization of locative and temporal adjuncts
9. Conclusions
Chapter 26: Elements of discourse structure
1. Introduction
2. Comment clause
3. Comment on topic
4. Comment in parataxis
5. Comment with complementation
6. Comment marker and emotive modality marker
7. Change of scene
8. New action and its consequence
9. Conclusions
Texts
Text 1. The year of hunger
Text 2. The four men
Text 3. The three men
Text 4. In the time of famine
Text 5. A frog and a buffalo
Index
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