24.4138, Books: A Grammar of Tommo So: McPherson

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:28:57
From: Linda Steglich [linda.steglich at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Tommo So: McPherson

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Title: A Grammar of Tommo So 
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 62  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/186148?format=G 

Author: Laura McPherson

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110301076 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 169.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110300925 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 169.95

Abstract:

Tommo So is a Dogon language with approximately 60,000 speakers in Mali, West
Africa. As only the second full grammatical description of a Dogon language,
this volume is a critical resource for solving the mystery of Dogon's genetic
affiliation with other languages in Africa. Tommo So is an SOV language with
isolating nominal morphology and agglutinative verbal morphology; suffixes on
the verb mark tense/aspect/negation as well as subject agreement. The
phonology is sensitive to levels of verbal morphology in that variable vowel
harmony applies less frequently as one moves to outer layers of the
morphology. The tone system of Tommo So is of typological interest in both its
phonological and syntactic instantiations. Phonologically, it is a two-tone
system of H and L, but these specified tones contrast with a
surface-underspecified tone. Grammatically, the lexical tone of a word is
often overwritten by syntactically-induced overlays. For example, an
inalienable noun's tone will be replaced with L if it is possessed by a
non-pronominal possessor, and by either H or HL if the possessor is
pronominal. The language has also innovated a series of locative quasi-verbs
and focus particles sensitive to pragmatic factors like certainty.

Linguistic Field(s): Grammars
                     Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Tommo So (dto)

Language Family(ies): Dogon

Written In: English  (eng)

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