A grammar of Pévé

384 Pages·2019·4.633 MB·English

by  Erin Shay

AGrammarofPévé
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Grammars and Sketches of the
World’s Languages
Africa
Editor
GerritJ.Dimmendaal
(UniversityofCologne)
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A Grammar of Pévé
By
ErinShay
Incollaborationwith
LazareWambadang
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
ListofTables xii
Abbreviations xiii
1 ThePévéLanguage 1
1 Introduction 1
2 ClassificationandNomenclature 1
3 ExistingWorksonthePévéLanguage 7
4 NatureandSourcesoftheData 9
5 NotesontheTranscription 9
6 OutlineoftheGrammar 12
3 Conclusion 22
2 Phonology 29
1 Introduction 29
2 Consonants 29
3 Vowels 38
4 Phonotactics 44
5 Tone 49
6 Conclusion 52
3 ParsingMorphology 54
1 Introduction 54
2 ExistingApproaches 54
3 DistributionofPhrase-FinalForms 56
4 FunctionofFinalVowelAddition 61
5 Conclusion 65
4 Verbs 66
1 Introduction 66
2 PhonologicalStructureoftheVerb 66
3 Morphology 67
4 Derivation 70
5 Singularvs.PluralVerbs 74
6 Conclusion 76
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5 NounsandtheNounPhrase 77
1 Introduction 77
2 PhonologicalStructureoftheNoun 78
3 Number 78
4 NounPhrase 80
5 PrenominalModifiers 80
6 Post-nominalModifiers 83
7 ConjoinedNounPhrase 97
8 ProperNames 98
9 DerivedNouns 99
10 Conclusion 102
6 CodingGrammaticalRelations 103
1 Introduction 103
2 Subject 104
3 DirectObjectFunction 111
4 IndirectObject 117
5 SummaryoftheCodingofGrammaticalRoles 122
6 Conclusion 125
7 CodingSemanticRelations 126
1 Introduction 126
2 SemanticRoleoftheSubject 126
3 SemanticRoleoftheDirectObject 130
4 SemanticRoleoftheIndirectObject 130
5 Source 134
6 Reciprocal 135
7 CoreferentialityofSubjectandObject 136
8 Conclusion 137
8 TenseandAspect 138
1 Introduction 138
2 FutureTense 139
3 Aspect 141
4 Conclusion 156
9 MoodandModality 157
1 Introduction 157
2 SubjunctiveMood 158
3 EpistemicMood 168
4 Conclusion 175
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10 LocativeExpressionsandLocativePredications 176
1 Introduction 176
2 LocativePredicationinPévé 177
3 SemanticFunctionsofInherentlyLocativePredicates 179
4 LocativeSerialVerbConstructions 185
5 SpatialPrepositionsandSpecifiers 189
6 Conclusion 193
11 VerblessandCopularPredications 195
1 Introduction 195
2 IdentificationalPredication 195
3 EquationalPredication 197
4 AttributivePredication 201
5 PossessivePredication 204
6 Conclusion 205
12 SystemofReference 206
1 Introduction 206
2 FirstMention:BareNounPhrase 206
3 DeducibleReferenceMarkers:nə,rəandkunə 208
4 ReferencetoanUnspecifiedEntity 212
5 AnaphoricReference 214
6 DeicticReference 221
7 Conclusion 225
13 Interrogatives 226
1 Introduction 226
2 PolarQuestions 226
3 ContentQuestions 228
4 Conclusion 235
14 Negation 236
1 Introduction 236
2 IndicativeClauses 236
3 ScopeofNegation 240
4 Conclusion 240
15 TopicalizationandFocus 241
1 Introduction 241
2 Topicalization 241
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3 Focus 243
4 Conclusion 246
16 ConjoinedClauses 247
1 Introduction 247
2 Conjunctionɓay 247
3 Counterexpectation 249
4 Conclusion 250
17 RelativeClauses 251
1 Introduction 251
2 SubjectHead 251
3 ObjectHead 254
4 AdjunctHead 256
5 DeicticRelativeClauses 257
6 Conclusion 258
18 ConditionalandTemporalConstructions 259
1 Introduction 259
2 ConditionalConstructions 259
3 TemporalConstructions 263
4 Conclusion 266
19 Complementation 268
1 Introduction 268
2 VerbsofSaying 268
3 VerbsofPerception 282
4 VerbsofCognition 284
5 VolitionalVerbwàʔ 286
6 AbilityVerbgàk‘Can,BeAble’ 288
7 CounterfactualMatrixClause 290
8 ComplementsofOtherVerbs 292
9 Conclusion 295
20 ComparativeConstructions 296
1 Introduction 296
2 EqualComparison 296
3 UnequalComparison 297
4 Conclusion 299
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21 AdjunctPhrasesandClauses 300
1 Introduction 300
2 TemporalAdjuncts 300
3 AssociativeandInstrumentalAdjuncts 305
4 MannerAdjuncts 307
5 Intensity,Repetition,andRecurrence 309
6 PurposeClauses 315
7 ReasonClauses 316
8 PositiveAdjunct 316
9 Conclusion 318
22 SampleTexts 319
1 MonitorLizardandGuineaFowl 319
2 BusTrip:LazareWambadang 324
Appendix1:ACompilationofTables 327
Appendix2:ASummaryofMorphologicalFormsandFunctions 330
Pévé-EnglishLexicon 332
English-PévéLexicon 344
References 354
Index 358
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