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Date: 29-Sep-2011
From: Brian Homoleski [publications_intl at sil.org]
Subject: The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 2: A Descriptive Grammar: Van
Otterloo


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From: Brian Homoleski [publications_intl at sil.org]
Subject: The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 2: A Descriptive Grammar: Van Otterloo

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Title: The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 2:  A Descriptive Grammar 
Series Title: Publications in Linguistics  

Publication Year: 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)
	
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