34.1849, Books: A Grammar of Digo: A Bantu Language of Kenya and Tanzania, revised ed.: Nicolle

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Date: 30-May-2023
From: Academic Publishing Services [publications_intl at sil.org]
Subject: A Grammar of Digo: A Bantu Language of Kenya and Tanzania, revised ed.: Nicolle


Title: A Grammar of Digo: A Bantu Language of Kenya and Tanzania,
revised ed.
Series Title: SIL International Publications in Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: SIL International Publications
                http://www.sil.org/resources/publications
Book URL: https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/96126

Author: Steve Nicolle
Paperback: ISBN: 9781556712814 Pages: 452 Price: U.S. $ 39.99
Abstract:

This revised edition remains the only comprehensive grammar of the
underdocumented Digo (Chidigo) language. Included in this revision is
additional language material plus an expanded bibliography of
publications in and about Digo.

Besides a clear description of Digo morphology and syntax, with
multiple illustrative examples, this grammar includes several glossed
texts, a 1700-item wordlist, and a list of over 100 botanical names.
It gives particular emphasis to semantic and discourse relations of
elements that are often not analysed from this perspective in
grammatical descriptions. These include the forms and functions of
Digo’s complex system of demonstratives, a description of over 30
tense, aspect, and movement markers, and a detailed discussion of
information structure and non-verbal clauses.

The original volume was a result of seven years fieldwork in Digo, the
southernmost language of the Mijikenda cluster of Bantu languages,
spoken along the coast of East Africa in Kenya and Tanzania. This book
will be of interest to linguists concerned with Bantu languages,
typology, morphosyntax, and semantics.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Written In: English (eng)

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