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Title: Aspects of Dagbani Grammar 
Subtitle: With special emphasis on phonology and morphology 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 41  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu
	
Author: Knut J. Olawsky

Paperback: ISBN: 3895866385  Pages: 230 Price: Europe EURO 81.20


Abstract:

This study constitutes a synchronic description of Dagbani, as spoken in
the Northern Region of Ghana. The work gives an overview of a little-known
Gur language in which various aspects of lexicon, syntax, morphology, and
phonology are characterised. Special emphasis is put on the description of
phonology and morphology. One section discusses the number inflection of
nominals, supported by psycholinguistic evidence drawn from experiments
with Dagbani speakers. This presumably reflects one of the first trials to
explore the morphological structure of an African language by means of
experiments.

The largest part of the work is dedicated to the phonology of Dagbani. The
sections on tone re of particular interest, as they represent one of the
few attempts to characterise the tonology of a Gur language. Dagbani
displays a number of interesting phenomena of tonal interaction of various
kinds which are ilustrated by numerous examples. The data are the result of
various fieldtrips by the author. Where possible, frequency distributions
and other statistical information are given in order to illustrate how
representative a phenomenon is.

The systematic description of Dagbani grammar is a task which has not been
undertaken so far. Though far from being complete, this description of
Dagbani is the most comprehensive linguistic work on the language. 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Dagbani (dag)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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