A grammar of Lopit an eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan
Introduction -- Phonology -- Word Classes -- The Noun Phrase -- The Verb: Overview -- Aspect and Modality -- Basic Sentence Structure -- Property Concepts and Adverbial Notions -- Clause Combining Constructions -- Appendix 1: Swadesh List for Lopit -- Appendix 2: Lopit Narratives -- Appendix 3: Data...
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Leiden, Boston
Brill
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Grammars and sketches of the world's languages. Africa
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- Phonology -- Word Classes -- The Noun Phrase -- The Verb: Overview -- Aspect and Modality -- Basic Sentence Structure -- Property Concepts and Adverbial Notions -- Clause Combining Constructions -- Appendix 1: Swadesh List for Lopit -- Appendix 2: Lopit Narratives -- Appendix 3: Data Citation for Chapter 2 (Phonology). "In A Grammar of Lopit, Jonathan Moodie and Rosey Billington provide the first detailed description of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language traditionally spoken in the Lopit Mountains in South Sudan. Drawing on extensive primary data, the authors describe the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the Lopit language. Their analyses offer new insights into phenomena characteristic of Nilo-Saharan languages, such as 'Advanced Tongue Root' vowel distinctions, tripartitite number marking, and marked-nominative case systems, and they uncover patterns which are previously unattested within the Eastern Nilotic family, such as a three-way contrast in aspect, number marking with the 'greater singular', and two kinds of inclusory constructions. This book offers a significant contribution to the descriptive and typological literature on African languages"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIX, 485 Seiten graphische Darstellungen, Karte |
| ISBN: | 9789004430662 978-90-04-43066-2 |