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Abstract......Page 3 Table of contents......Page 4 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Abbreviations......Page 9 Maps......Page 10 1.1 Scope of the grammar......Page 13 1.2 The environment and social setting of the Menya people......Page 15 1.3 The linguistic setting of Menya......Page 17 1.4 Phonology and orthography......Page 19 2 Morphosyntactic overview......Page 23 2.1 Word classes and morphology......Page 24 2.2 Sentence overview......Page 26 2.2.1 Indicative mood......Page 27 2.2.2 Polar interrogative mood......Page 28 2.2.3 Content (WH) question mood......Page 29 2.3 Verbal clause structure overview......Page 30 2.3.1 Word order......Page 31 2.3.2 The status of subject and object......Page 32 2.3.3 Role discrimination: verb agreement & case marking......Page 34 2.3.4 Clause complexity......Page 38 2.3.5 Tense, aspect, modality & negation......Page 39 2.4 Clause linkage overview......Page 40 2.4.1 Serialization......Page 41 2.4.2 Different-referent medials......Page 42 2.4.3 Same-referent medials......Page 43 2.4.4 Finite forms used non-finally......Page 44 3.1.1 Personal pronouns......Page 45 3.1.2 Demonstrative pronouns......Page 48 3.1.3 Dyadic kin pronouns......Page 53 3.2.2.1
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- Author
- Carl Robert Whitehead.
- Publisher
- University of Manitoba
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Language
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