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BL
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1004545
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b758915
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Heath, Jeffrey.
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| Title & Author
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A grammar of Jamsay /\ by Jeffrey Heath.
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| Publication Statement
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Berlin ;New York :: Mouton de Gruyter,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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Mouton grammar library ;; 45
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1 online resource (xx, 735 pages)
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| ISBN
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1282196790
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: 3110207222
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: 9781282196797
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: 9783110207224
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3110201135
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9783110201130
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 721-727) and index.
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| Contents
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Frontmatter; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Sketch; 3 Phonology; 4 Nominal, pronominal, and adjectival morphology; 5 Nominal and adjectival compounds; 6 Noun phrase structure; 7 Coordination; 8 Postpositions and adverbials; 9 Verbal derivation; 10 Verbal inflection; 11 VP and predicate structure; 12 Comparatives; 13 Focalization and interrogation; 14 Relativization; 15 Verb (VP) chaining and adverbial clauses; 16 Conditional constructions; 17 Complement and purposive clauses; 18 Anaphora; 19 Grammatical pragmatics; 20 Dialects; Backmatter.
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| Abstract
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Jamsay is the largest-population language among some twenty Dogon languages in Mali, West Africa. This is the first comprehensive grammar of any Dogon language, including a full tonology. The language is verb-final, with subject agreement on the verb and with no other case-marking. Its most striking feature is the morphosyntactically triggered use of stem-wide tone-contour overlays on nouns, verbs, and adjectives. All stems have a lexical tone contour such as H[igh], L[ow]-H, HL, or LHL with at least one H-tone. An exam of tone overlay is tone-dropping to stem-wide all-L. This is used for Perf.
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Jamsay dialect-- Grammar.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- African Languages.
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Grammatik
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Jamsay.
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| Dewey Classification
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496/.3
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| LC Classification
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PL8139.95.J35H43 2008eb
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