LINGUIST List 22.3817 Sat Oct 01 2011 Books: Discourse Analysis/Lang Documentation/Semantics: Van Otterloo 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.     Brian Homoleski , The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 2: A Descriptive Grammar: Van Otterloo Message 1: The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 2: A Descriptive Grammar: Van Otterloo Date: 29-Sep-2011 From: Brian Homoleski <publications_intlsil.org> Subject: The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 2: A Descriptive Grammar: Van Otterloo E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 2: A Descriptive Grammar Series Title: Publications in Linguistics Published: 2011 Publisher: SIL International Publications                 http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp Book URL: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_product.asp?isbn=9781556712708 Author: Roger Van Otterloo Paperback: ISBN: 9781556712708 Pages: 616 Price: U.S. $ 59.99 Abstract: This groundbreaking study addresses all grammatical levels of Kifuliiru, a Bantu J language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Together with its companion volume (The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 1: Phonology, Tone, and Morphological Derivation), this is one of the most thorough Bantu grammars available, aiming to describe all grammatical features found in over 100 narrative texts, and to provide natural examples. At the word level, this book covers nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, demonstratives, locatives, ideophones, and interjections. The chapter on verbs catalogues the wide range of tenses, aspects and moods. There is a comprehensive chapter on reduplication and another on proverbs. At the clause level, information structure is carefully presented, including possible alternations of the default clause word order. A complete set of distinct interclausal relations is also laid out. Of particular interest is a detailed study of narrative discourse, an area that most Bantu grammars to date do not cover. This study includes a fascinating section on tight-knit conversations. Also noted are various development markers, which demarcate two distinct levels of thematic salience. Intonation and pauses are also described, including a typical long pause between topic and comment. Many of the discourse features described in this book are common to Bantu languages, and this volume thus invites further comparative study. The contents of this book have already provided a springboard for extensive discourse study in dozens of related languages. Roger Van Otterloo received his master's degree in linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1976. He and his wife Karen (author of Volumne 1) have worked with SIL International among the Kifuliiru-speaking community since 1980, living in their communities from 1980-1996. Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Language Documentation                             Semantics                             Syntax Subject Language(s): Fuliiru (flr) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=57729 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. 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