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Author:   Erin Shay
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   14
Weight:   0.791kg
ISBN:  

9789004445901

ISBN 10:   9004445900
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   21 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Tables Abbreviations 1 The Giziga Language  1 Name, Classification, and Geographical Location  2 Existing Literature  3 Data Sources  4 Notes on Data and Transcription  5 Outline of the Grammar  6 Conclusion 2 Phonology  1 Introduction  2 Consonants  3 Vowels  4 Syllable Structures and Syllabification  5 Phonotactics  6 Tone  7 Conclusions 3 Verbs  1 Introduction  2 The Nature of the Underlying Form  3 Structural Classes of Verbs  4 Tone in the Verbal Piece  5 Monosyllabic Verbs  6 Bisyllabic Verbs  7 Deriving the Infinitive Stem  8 Deriving the Participial Stem  9 Conclusions 4 Nouns, Pronouns and Noun Phrases  1 Introduction  2 Phonology of Nouns  3 Vowel-Final Nouns  4 Glide-Final Nouns  5 Consonant-Final Nouns  6 Derived Nouns  7 Semantic Categories of Nouns  8 Conjoining Noun Phrases  9 Independent Pronouns  10 The Noun Phrase  11 Modifying Constructions  12 Number in the Noun Phrase  13 Conclusions 5 Coding Grammatical Relations  1 Introduction  2 Subject  3 Object Suffixes  4 Classes of Verbs  5 Conclusions 6 Coding Semantic Relations  1 Introduction  2 Default Semantic Roles  3 Conclusions 7 Tense and Aspect  1 Introduction  2 Perfective Aspect  3 Imperfective Aspect  4 Progressive Aspect  5 Frequentative Aspect  6 Past Tense  7 Future Tense  8 Conclusions 8 Marking the End of the Event  1 Introduction  2 Form and Distribution of the End-of-Event Marker  3 Conclusions 9 Modality  1 Introduction  2 Deontic Modality  3 Hypothetical Modality  4 Coding Pretense  5 Doubt in Truth  6 The Modal Particle gú ‘be able to’  7 Conclusions 10 Locative Predication  1 Introduction  2 Locative Verbs  3 Ventive Extension -áwà  4 Stative Predications  5 Prepositions  6 Spatial Specifiers  7 Cardinal Directions  8 Serial Verb Constructions  9 Conclusions 11 Verbless Clauses  1 Introduction  2 Identificational Clauses  3 Attributive Clauses  4 Existential Clauses  5 Possessive Clauses  6 Temporal Distinctions in the Verbless Clause  7 Conclusions 12 System of Reference  1 Introduction  2 Anaphoric Reference to Participants  3 Remote Previous Mention  4 Referential Object Clitic =a  5 Anaphoric Reference to Location, Time, and Events  6 Deictic Reference to Participants  7 Unspecified Referent  8 Conclusions 13 Interrogatives  1 Introduction  2 Polar Interrogatives  3 Disjunctive Questions: X or Y?  4 Content Interrogatives  5 Questions in the Domain de dicto  6 Conclusions 14 Negative Predication  1 Introduction  2 Negating the Verbless Clause  3 Negation in the Verbal Clause  4 Coding Tense in the Negative Clause  5 Negating the Non-referential Subject  6 Conclusions 15 Topics and Topicalization  1 Introduction  2 Topicalized Subject  3 Topicalized Direct Object  4 Topicalized Indirect Object  5 Other Topicalized Constituents  6 Non-constituent Topic  7 Shift in Topic  8 Conclusions 16 Contrastive Focus  1 Introduction  2 Focused Subject  3 Focused Object  4 Focused Predicate  5 Contrastive Focus on Other Constituents  6 Conclusions 17 Conjoining Clauses  1 Introduction  2 Parataxis (Asyndetic Conjunction)  3 The Conjunction páɗ  4 Sequential Conjunction  5 Conjoining Affirmative and Negative Clauses  6 Conclusions 18 Complement Clauses  1 Introduction  2 Comment on a Noun Phrase  3 Comment on an Adjunct  4 Comment on the Protasis  5 Comment on the Purpose Clause  6 Comment on the Matrix Clause  7 Comment on a Complete Clause  8 Interrogative as Comment  9 Conclusions 19 Relative Clauses  1 Introduction  2 Form of the Relative Clause  3 Tense and Aspect in the Relative Clause  4 Coding the Role of the Relativized Constituent  5 Conclusions 20 Conditional and Temporal Constructions  1 Introduction  2 Conditional/Temporal Protasis  3 Conclusions 21 Complementation  1 Introduction  2 Complements of Verbs  3 Conclusions 22 Coding Purpose and Reason  1 Introduction  2 Irrealis Purpose Adjuncts  3 Reason Phrases  4 Conclusions 23 Comparative Constructions  1 Introduction  2 Equal Comparison  3 Unequal Comparison  4 Conclusions 24 Adjuncts  1 Introduction  2 Temporal Adjuncts  3 Manner Adjuncts  4 Interjections and Terms of Address  5 Intensifiers  6 Ideophones  7 Conclusions 25 Sample Texts  1 Introduction  2 The Story of Kay and Her Brother Gòló (Narrated by Saini Sikoua in 2006)  3 A History of Muturua (Narrated by Saini Sikoua in 2007) Appendix 1: A Compilation of Tables Appendix 2: A Summary of Morphological Forms and Functions Giziga-English Lexicon English-Giziga Lexicon References Index

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Erin Shay is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author/co-author of grammars of four Chadic languages and many books and papers concerning linguistic forms and functions.

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