24.2589, Books: A grammar of Tafi: Bobuafor

Tue Jun 25 20:55:34 UTC 2013

LINGUIST List: Vol-24-2589. Tue Jun 25 2013. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 24.2589, Books: A grammar of Tafi: Bobuafor

Moderator: Damir Cavar, Eastern Michigan U <damir at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin Madison
Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin Madison
Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin Madison
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin Madison
Mateja Schuck, U of Wisconsin Madison
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin Madison
       <reviews at linguistlist.org>

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Do you want to donate to LINGUIST without spending an extra penny? Bookmark
the Amazon link for your country below; then use it whenever you buy from
Amazon!

USA: http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-20
Britain: http://www.amazon.co.uk/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-21
Germany: http://www.amazon.de/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistd-21
Japan: http://www.amazon.co.jp/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-22
Canada: http://www.amazon.ca/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistc-20
France: http://www.amazon.fr/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistf-21

For more information on the LINGUIST Amazon store please visit our
FAQ at http://linguistlist.org/amazon-faq.cfm.

Editor for this issue: Rebekah McClure <rebekah at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.linguistlist.org/

Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:55:19
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: A grammar of Tafi: Bobuafor

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-2589.html&submissionid=16348182&topicid=2&msgnumber=1

Title: A grammar of Tafi 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Mercy Bobuafor

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460931130 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 23.81

Abstract:

This book presents the first comprehensive description of Tafi, one of the
fourteen Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages, spoken by approximately 4,400
people in the southeastern part of Ghana. The description consists of thirteen
chapters and is based on a corpus gathered during two fieldwork periods
totalling fifteen months in the Tafi area. This work contains analyses of the
phonology, morphology, and syntax of the language. Aspects of pragmatics,
including utterance particles, conversational routines, interjections, and
ideophones are described. The language has a nine-vowel system with a robust
root controlled Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony and a complex tonology. The
noun class system and its agreement systems display change in progress. This
study also accounts for several distinctive features of the language such as a
small class of underived adjectives and a set of derived adjectives by verb
reduplication; two adpositional classes and their grammaticalization
histories, and a rare split possessor system where singular kin possessors are
marked differently from other possessors (including plural kin). The form,
function and meaning of several grammatical constructions are also covered:
serial verb constructions with features marked on the first verb, split
predicate constructions for some modal and aspectual meanings and a
medio-passive construction for predicating properties of undergoers as well as
topic and focus constructions. The influence of Ewe, the dominant lingua
franca, on the structures in Tafi is noted and the distinctions between Tafi
and its closest neighbour Nyagbo are highlighted. A selection of glossed and
translated texts from the database representing narrative folktales, proverbs,
riddles and procedural genres is also included. A grammar of Tafi is of
interest to specialists in African linguistics, linguistic typology as well as
contact linguistics. It contains valuable information for comparative studies
on the Ghana-Togo Mountain languages, Kwa languages and ultimately on
Niger-Congo languages.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Tafi (tcd)

Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=66173

PUBLISHING PARTNER

    Cambridge University Press
        http://us.cambridge.org

MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

    Akademie Verlag GmbH
        http://www.oldenbourg-verlag.de/akademie-verlag

    Bloomsbury Linguistics (formerly Continuum Linguistics)
        http://www.bloomsbury.com

    Brill
        http://www.brill.nl

    Cambridge Scholars Publishing
        http://www.c-s-p.org

    Cascadilla Press
        http://www.cascadilla.com/

    Classiques Garnier
        http://www.classiques-garnier.com/

    De Gruyter Mouton
        http://www.degruyter.com/

    Edinburgh University Press
        http://www.euppublishing.com

    Elsevier Ltd
        http://www.elsevier.com/

    Equinox Publishing Ltd
        http://www.equinoxpub.com/

    European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
        http://www.elra.info/

    Georgetown University Press
        http://www.press.georgetown.edu/

    John Benjamins
        http://www.benjamins.com/

    Lincom GmbH
        http://www.lincom-shop.eu/

    MIT Press
        http://mitpress.mit.edu/

    Multilingual Matters
        http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

    Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
        http://www.narr.de/

    Oxford University Press
        oup.com/us

    Palgrave Macmillan
        http://www.palgrave.com/

    Peter Lang AG
        http://www.peterlang.com/

    Rodopi
        http://www.rodopi.nl/

    Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
        http://www.routledge.com/

    Springer
        http://www.springer.com/

    University of Toronto Press
        http://www.utpjournals.com/

    Wiley-Blackwell
        http://www.wiley.com/

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

    Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
        http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm

    International Pragmatics Assoc.
        http://ipra.ua.ac.be/

    Linguistic Association of Finland
        http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/

    Morgan & Claypool Publishers
        http://www.morganclaypool.com/

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

    Seoul National University
        http://j-cs.org/index/index.php

    SIL International Publications
        http://www.sil.org/resources/publications

    Universitat Jaume I
        http://www.uji.es/CA/publ/

    University of Nebraska Press
        http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/

    Utrecht institute of Linguistics
        http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-24-2589	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.linguistlist.org/