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A grammar of Emai / Ronald P. Schaefer, Francis O. Egbokhare.
- Title
- A grammar of Emai / Ronald P. Schaefer, Francis O. Egbokhare.
- Author
- Schaefer, Ronald P.
- Publication
- Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Additional Authors
- Egbokhare, Francis O.
- Description
- xxiv, 994 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This grammar is the first description of Emai, an Edoid language of 25-35,000 villagers in southern Nigeria. It incorporates narrative, lexical and grammatical field results. Individual chapters delineate noun and verb phrases, clause character in discourse, clause combinations as well as tone functions. Prominently featured are complex predicates, functionally distinct copulas, double object constructions, and sentence complement types.
- Series Statement
- Mouton grammar library, 0933-7636 ; volume 72
- Uniform Title
- Mouton grammar library 72.
- Subject
- Emai dialect > Nigeria > Grammar
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 983-984) and index.
- Language (note)
- In English, with some text in Emai.
- ISBN
- 9783110489668
- OCLC
- 967864815
- SCSB-11646875
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library