32.1010, Books: A grammar of Mankanya: Gaved

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 20:31:13
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: A grammar of Mankanya: Gaved

 


Title: A grammar of Mankanya 
Subtitle: An Atlantic language of Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and the Gambia 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/a-grammar-of-mankanya-an-atlantic-language-of-guinea-bissau-senegal-and-the-gambia-2 


Author: Timothy Gaved

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933463 Pages: 327 Price: Europe EURO 36


Abstract:

This book presents a description of Mankanya, an Atlantic language spoken by
about 65 000 speakers in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and the Gambia. It includes a
sketch of the phonology and a detailed description of the morphology and
syntax of the language. Some aspects of discourse level structure are also
discussed and two interlinearised sample texts are included.

Mankanya has a rich morphology with both nominal and verbal inflection, and a
range of derivative morphemes. Like many other Atlantic languages, nouns can
be grouped into classes based on the agreement of the inflections between
nouns and their modifiers. Verbs have prefixes that agree with the subject.
Though some verbal affixes indicate different aspects, most distinctions of
tense, aspect and mode are made by using verbal auxiliaries. Clause chaining
is possible with reduced subject agreement if the subject is unchanged. Where
the subject does change a different subject marker is often used.

A Grammar of Mankanya will be of interest for those studying of Atlantic
languages, as well a resource for wider typological comparison.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Mankanya (knf)


Written In: English  (eng)

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