32.2664, Books: A grammar of Gyeli: Grimm

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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:31:09
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: A grammar of Gyeli: Grimm

 


Title: A grammar of Gyeli 
Series Title: Comprehensive Grammar Library  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/298 


Author: Nadine Grimm

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961103119 Pages: 724 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This grammar offers a grammatical description of the Ngòló variety of Gyeli,
an endangered Bantu (A80) language spoken by 4,000-5,000 "Pygmy"
hunter-gatherers in southern Cameroon. It represents one of the most
comprehensive descriptions of a northwestern Bantu language.

The grammatical description, which is couched in a form-to-function approach,
covers all levels of language, ranging from Gyeli phonology to its information
structure and complex clauses.

It draws on nineteen months of fieldwork carried out as part of the
"Bagyeli/Bakola" DoBeS (Documentation of Endangered Languages) project between
2010 and 2014. The resulting multimodal corpus from that project, which
includes texts of diverse genres such as traditional stories, narratives,
multi-party conversations and dialogues, procedural texts, and songs, provides
the empirical basis for the grammatical description. The documentary text
collection, supplemented by data from elicitation work, questionnaires, and
experiments, are accessible in the Bagyeli/Bakola collection of The Language
Archive. With additional ethnographic, sociolinguistic, diachronic, and
comparative remarks, the grammar may appeal to a wider audience in general
linguistics, typology, Bantu studies, and anthropology.

In 2019, the grammar received the Pāṇini Award by the Association for
Linguistic Typology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Gyele (gyi)


Written In: English  (eng)

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