Research Catalog

Title

Ateso grammar : a descriptive account of an Eastern Nilotic language / David Barasa.

Author

Barasa, David

Publication

Muenchen : Lincom GmbH, 2017.

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Details

Description

viii, 231 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

LINCOM studies in African linguistics ; 94

Uniform Title

LINCOM studies in African linguistics ; 94.

Subject

Teso language > Grammar

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral - Cape Town).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222).

Contents

Preface -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- The Iteso people and the Ateso language -- The Iteso -- Origin of the Iteso and their alleged migration routes -- Geographical distribution -- Population size -- General information about the Ateso language -- The external variation -- Regional variation (dialects) -- The Iteso people's language repertoire and patterns of use -- The Ateso orthography -- Fieldwork -- The phonology of Ateso -- The phoneme inventory -- The vowels -- The status of the tenth vowel -- Voiceless vowels -- Distinctive features for vowels -- The consonants -- Tone -- Syllables and moraic units -- The structure of syllable onset -- Vocalisation of glides -- The syllable nucleus -- The coda -- Moraic units -- The syllable structure of assimilated loan words -- Vowel harmony -- Root-control -- Feature-control -- Mid-vowel assimilation -- Vowel deletion -- Contextual nasalisation -- Noun morphology and the structure of the noun phrase -- Noun inflection -- Gender marking -- Number suffixes -- Plurative marking -- Singulative marking -- Replacive marking -- Non-alternating nouns -- Irregular or semi-irregular nouns -- Kinship terms -- Noun derivation -- Diminutisation -- Verb to noun derivation -- Concrete to abstract noun derivation -- Nominal modifiers -- Demonstratives -- Quantifiers -- Numerals -- Cardinals -- Ordinals -- Adjectives -- Stative verbs -- Relative clause and noun derivation -- Colour terms -- Possessive noun modifiers -- Pronouns and pronominal alignment -- Personal subject pronouns -- Inflectional personal prefix pronouns -- Independent personal pronouns -- Pronominal alignment -- Marked-nominative alignment -- The hierarchical system of person marking -- Possessive pronouns -- Relative pronouns -- Interrogative pronouns -- Minor word categories -- Adverbs -- Temporal adverbs -- Adverbs of manner, degree and probability -- Prepositions -- Attitude markers -- Restrictives -- Overview of verb structure and derivational morphology of the verb -- The structure of Ateso verbs -- Verb classes and person marking -- Infinitives -- Verb root -- Morpho-syntactic analysis of the verb -- Causatives -- The ventive and itive -- The dative -- The instrumental -- The iterative -- Pluractionality -- Voice -- Active voice -- Passive voice -- Reciprocal -- Co-occurrence of verbal derivations -- Inflectional morphology of the verb -- Tense, aspect and mood -- The notion of tense in Ateso -- Non-past tense -- Past tense -- Aspect marking -- Imperfective aspect -- The habitual aspect -- Perfective aspect -- Perfect aspect -- Mood -- The subjunctive and the imperative -- The conditional -- Case marking -- Marked nominative case -- Split alignment -- The genitive case -- The locative case -- The instrumental case -- Clause and sentence structure -- Constituents of the Ateso morpho-syntactic structures -- Clause structure -- Transitivity -- Intransitive clauses -- Transitive clauses -- Ambitransitive clauses -- Ditransitive clauses -- Interrogative clauses -- Content questions -- Polar questions -- The potential -- Complex clauses -- Relativisation -- Complementation -- Simulatives -- Superlatives -- Sentence structure -- Coordination -- Clause chaining -- Subordination -- Adverbials -- Conditionals -- Focus marking -- General conclusion -- References -- Appendices.

Call Number

ReCAP 18-18182

ISBN

• 9783862888337
• 3862888339

LCCN

9783862888337

OCLC

999789753

Author

Barasa, David, author.

Title

Ateso grammar : a descriptive account of an Eastern Nilotic language / David Barasa.

Publisher

Muenchen : Lincom GmbH, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

LINCOM studies in African linguistics ; 94

LINCOM studies in African linguistics ; 94.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222).

Local Subject

Black author.

Other Standard Identifier

9783862888337

Research Call Number

ReCAP 18-18182