LINGUIST List 22.3679 Wed Sep 21 2011 Books: Lang Documentation/Anthro Ling: Mu’azu, Juma’a, Tebu Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Ulrich Lueders , A Descriptive Grammar of the Bassa-nge Language: Mu’azu, Juma’a, Tebu Message 1: A Descriptive Grammar of the Bassa-nge Language: Mu’azu, Juma’a, Tebu Date: 19-Sep-2011 From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de> Subject: A Descriptive Grammar of the Bassa-nge Language: Mu’azu, Juma’a, Tebu E-mail this message to a friend Title: A Descriptive Grammar of the Bassa-nge Language Series Title: LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 85 Published: 2011 Publisher: Lincom GmbH                 http://www.lincom.eu Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu Author: Mohammed Aminu Mu’azu Author: Jidda Hassan Juma’a Author: Suleman Tebu Paperback: ISBN: 9783862881635 Pages: 170 Price: Europe EURO 64.50 Abstract: A descriptive grammar of the Bassa-nge language presents a comprehensive description of an endangered language spoken in Kogi State-Nigeria. The language belongs to the Niger-Kordofanian phylum of the Kwa family. The 12,000 speakers of the language occupy the eastern side of the confluence of the river Niger and Benue, though some of them still live on the side of river Lokoja. The Grammar book has four chapters. The first chapter discusses the geographical location of the language, historical origin and settlement of the people and the classification of the language. The second chapter treats the phonology of the language enumerating the consonant and vowel systems. The third chapter briefly discusses the nominal and verbal morphology of the language while, the last chapter treats the syntax of the language, discussing the structure of the nominal and verbal phrases, identifying all the possible constituents that can occur in each of the phrases. These are supported with tree diagram of the sentences analyzed as well as phrase structure rules. The book's authors, Mohammed Aminu Mu'azu, Jidda Hassan Juma'a and Suleman Sokomba Tebu are graduates of General linguistics and Associate Professors in the Department of Languages and Linguistics, University of Maiduguri-Nigeria. 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