31.2886, Books: A Grammar of Lopit: Moodie, Billington

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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:21:18
From: Clovis Jaillet [Jaillet at Brill.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Lopit: Moodie, Billington

 


Title: A Grammar of Lopit 
Subtitle: An Eastern Nilotic Language of South Sudan 
Series Title: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/view/title/57490 


Author: Jonathan Moodie
Author: Rosey Billington

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004430679 Pages: 485 Price: U.S. $ 198
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004430662 Pages: 485 Price: U.S. $ 198


Abstract:

In A Grammar of Lopit, Jonathan Moodie and Rosey Billington provide the first
detailed description of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language traditionally
spoken in the Lopit Mountains in South Sudan. Drawing on extensive primary
data, the authors describe the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the Lopit
language. Their analyses offer new insights into phenomena characteristic of
Nilo-Saharan languages, such as ‘Advanced Tongue Root’ vowel distinctions,
tripartitite number marking, and marked-nominative case systems, and they
uncover patterns which are previously unattested within the Eastern Nilotic
family, such as a three-way contrast in aspect, number marking with the
‘greater singular’, and two kinds of inclusory constructions. This book offers
a significant contribution to the descriptive and typological literature on
African languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Lopit (lpx)


Written In: English  (eng)

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