31.1066, Books: A GRAMMAR OF SEENKU: McPherson

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:31:09
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: A GRAMMAR OF SEENKU: McPherson

 


Title: A GRAMMAR OF SEENKU 
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/2vQEpnF 


Author: Laura McPherson

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110612950 Pages: 572 Price: U.S. $ 172.99


Abstract:

Seenku is a Western Mande language of the Samogo group spoken in southwestern
Burkina Faso by approximately 17,000 speakers. It has undergone a lot of
phonological reduction, leading to a rich segmental and tonal phoneme
inventory but mainly mono- and sesquisyllabic roots. The language has four
contrastive levels of tone that combine to create over a dozen contours. Tone
has a high functional load lexically and grammatically, permeating all aspects
of grammar. Most verbs have two stem forms: a realis form and an irrealis
form. The realis is derived from the irrealis by infixing a high vowel before
the stem vowel, creating a diphthong. The use of a particular stem form is
determined by aspect and construction type, but most other morphosyntactic
meanings (e.g. progressive aspect or causative) are expressed analytically.
Like most Mande languages, Seenku has an S Aux O V X word order in addition to
areal clause-final negation. It displays a reduced set of post-subject
“predicate markers” compared to other Mande languages, and those that are
attested are variably realized only by tone changes and lengthening on the
subject itself.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Seeku (sos)

Language Family(ies): Niger-Congo


Written In: English  (eng)

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