Date: 04-Jun-2008 From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de> Subject: A Reference Grammar of Mbay: Keegan E-mail this message to a friend
Title: A Reference Grammar of Mbay
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 14
Published: 2008
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom.eu
Author: John M Keegan
Paperback: ISBN: 9783895869228 Pages: 212 Price: Europe EURO 85.80
Abstract:
NEW EDITION
A Reference Grammar of Mbay
John Keegan
A Reference Grammar of Mbay provides a solid introduction to the grammar of Mbay, a Sara Language of the Central-Sudanic branch of Nilo-Saharan. The initial chapters provide a description of segmental phonology, including a justification for the writing system used in both the grammar and in the Dictionary of Mbay. Inflectional morphology and word formation are then treated, together with any associated phonological change. The last three chapters deal with Mbay syntax. The grammatical descriptions are accompanied by hundreds of examples, and in most cases both a word-for-word translation and a more colloquial translation are included.
This second edition of the reference grammar contains few substantive changes. Conclusions regarding tone simplification have been modified based on an analysis of recordings made on the topic, and the description of the phonetic quality of the neutralized vowel has also been revised. Some statistics regarding the distribution of tone patterns have been added to the end of chapter one. A large number of other minor revisions and additions have been made, and in many areas new explanatory details and examples have been provided. The most significant change in this edition has been the addition of a large number of morpheme-by-morpheme English translations for illustrative sentences where only a colloquial translation had been available in the first edition.
ISBN 9783895869228. LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 14. 212pp. 2008. 2nd edition.
Linguistic Field(s):
Phonology
Syntax
African Linguistics
Language Documentation
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