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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

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Title: A Grammar of Eton
Written By: Mark L. O. van de Velde
URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/imp/mouton/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110204407-1
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 46
Description:

A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is carefully analysed and presented in a simple and consistent descriptive framework, which permits the reader to keep track of Eton's many tonal morphemes. Phonologists will be especially interested in the analysis of stem initial prominence, which manifests itself in a number of logically independent phenomena, including length of the onset consonant, phonotactic skewing and number of tonal attachment sites. Typologists and Africanists working on morphosyntax will find useful analyses of, among others, gender and agreement; tense, aspect, mood and negation; and verbal derivation. They will encounter many morphosyntactic differences between Eton and the better known Eastern and Southern Bantu languages, often due to evolutions shaped by maximality constraints on stems. The chapters on clause structure and complex constructions provide data hardly found in sources on the languages of the region, including descriptions of non-verbal clauses, focus, quasi-auxiliaries and adverbial clauses.

Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
Morphology
Phonology
Syntax
Typology
Subject Language(s): Eton

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 3110204401
ISBN-13: 9783110204407
Pages: 432
Prices: Europe EURO 148.00
U.S. $ 237.00