A Grammar of Lango
Grammar of Lango
1st Edition
Published on 12. May 2011
XVI, 352 pages
978-3-11-085051-2 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- A note on transcription
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Phonology and morphology
- Table: Lango morphophonemes
- 1. Consonants
- 1.1 Inventory of consonants
- 1.2 Distribution of consonants
- 1.3 Inventory of consonant morphophonemes
- 1.4 Other morphophonemic processes
- 1.5 Non-productive alternations
- 1.6 'Zero consonants'
- 2. Vowels
- 2.1 Inventory of vowels
- 2.2 Vowel length
- 2.3 Nasalization
- 2.4 Inventory of vowel morphophonemes
- 2.5 Distribution of vowels
- 2.6 Adjacent vowels in internal sandhi
- 2.7 Adjacent vowels in external sandhi
- 2.8 Non-productive alternations
- 3. Stress
- 4. Tone
- 4.1 Inventory of tones
- 4.2 Downdrift and downstep
- 4.3 Tone patterns in citation forms
- 4.4 Tone sandhi
- 4.5 The irregular H(L) class nouns
- Part II: Morphology
- 5. The structure of Lango words
- 5.1 General considerations
- 5.2 Nouns
- 5.3 Verbs
- 5.4 Adjectives
- 5.5 Prepositions
- 5.6 Pronouns
- 5.7 Numerals
- 6. Reduplication
- 7. Compounds
- Part III: Syntax
- 8. The syntax of simple sentences
- 8.1 Basic order of the sentence
- 8.2 Verbal complex
- 8.3 Predicate nominal and predicate adjective constructions
- 8.4 Existence, location, and possession
- 8.5 Deviations from the basic order
- 8.6 Expression of passive senses
- 8.7 The organization of the noun phrase
- 8.8 Prepositional phrases
- 8.9 Interrogative constructions
- 8.10 Reduplicative constructions and gerunds
- 8.11 Expression of adverbial notions
- 8.12 Sentence particles
- 8.13 Weather expressions
- 8.14 The pro-predicate
- 8.15 Body-part imagery
- 9. The syntax of complex sentences
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Relative clauses
- 9.3 Complementation
- 9.4 Comparative constructions
- 9.5 Ingressive constructions
- 9.6 Coordinating sentences
- 9.7 Conditional constructions
- 9.8 Cleft constructions
- 9.9 Embedded cleft and topic constructions
- 9.10 Subjects and topics
- 9.11 Negative NP's
- 9.12 Expression of adverbial notions
- 10. Structures in discourse
- 11. Additional issues
- Notes
- References
- Sample text
- Lango-English vocabulary
- English-Lango vocabulary
- Index
