Date: 14-Nov-2007 From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de> Subject: A Grammar of Makwe: Devos E-mail this message to a friend
Title: A Grammar of Makwe
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 71
Published: 2007
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom.eu
Author: Maud Devos
Paperback: ISBN: 9783895861079 Pages: 533 Price: Europe EURO 82.00
Abstract:
A Grammar of Makwe presents a detailed description of a hitherto largely undocumented Bantu language spoken in the North of Mozambique. Historically speaking, Makwe is the outcome of a long-standing contact between Makonde as spoken in the interior of Tanzania and Mozambique and Swahili as spoken along the East African coast. This grammar treats Makwe phonology, the morphology of nouns, verbs and minor word categories, the semantics of verbal conjugations, and different syntactic topics. A rich collection of texts is offered at the end. Throughout the work, the linguistic analyses are abundantly illustrated with natural speech examples. Of special interest are the so-called conjoint and disjoint verb forms and modifiers which present a striking example of an interface between phonology, morphology, syntax and pragmatics.
Linguistic Field(s):
General Linguistics
Language Documentation
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