{"product_id":"a-grammar-of-giziga-a-chadic-language-of-far-north-cameroon-9789004445901","title":"A Grammar of Giziga: A Chadic Language of Far North Cameroon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first broad, detailed grammar of the Giziga language, which belongs to the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. The language is spoken in parts of the Far North Region of the Republic of Cameroon and can be divided into two dialects, Giziga and Northern Giziga, with about 80,000 native speakers in total. This volume describes the Giziga dialect, occasionally referring to the Northern variety, and aims to provide new information about this and other Afro-Asiatic languages for further research in linguistics, history, anthropology, sociology and related fields. The book will also be a tool helping Giziga speakers preserve their language, history and culture for future generations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  List of Tables  Abbreviations    1 The Giziga Language   1 Name, Classification, and Geographical Location   2 Existing Literature   3 Data Sources   4 Notes on Data and Transcription   5 Outline of the Grammar   6 Conclusion    2 Phonology   1 Introduction   2 Consonants   3 Vowels   4 Syllable Structures and Syllabification   5 Phonotactics   6 Tone   7 Conclusions    3 Verbs   1 Introduction   2 The Nature of the Underlying Form   3 Structural Classes of Verbs   4 Tone in the Verbal Piece   5 Monosyllabic Verbs   6 Bisyllabic Verbs   7 Deriving the Infinitive Stem   8 Deriving the Participial Stem   9 Conclusions    4 Nouns, Pronouns and Noun Phrases   1 Introduction   2 Phonology of Nouns   3 Vowel-Final Nouns   4 Glide-Final Nouns   5 Consonant-Final Nouns   6 Derived Nouns   7 Semantic Categories of Nouns   8 Conjoining Noun Phrases   9 Independent Pronouns   10 The Noun Phrase   11 Modifying Constructions   12 Number in the Noun Phrase   13 Conclusions    5 Coding Grammatical Relations   1 Introduction   2 Subject   3 Object Suffixes   4 Classes of Verbs   5 Conclusions    6 Coding Semantic Relations   1 Introduction   2 Default Semantic Roles   3 Conclusions    7 Tense and Aspect   1 Introduction   2 Perfective Aspect   3 Imperfective Aspect   4 Progressive Aspect   5 Frequentative Aspect   6 Past Tense   7 Future Tense   8 Conclusions    8 Marking the End of the Event   1 Introduction   2 Form and Distribution of the End-of-Event Marker   3 Conclusions    9 Modality   1 Introduction   2 Deontic Modality   3 Hypothetical Modality   4 Coding Pretense   5 Doubt in Truth   6 The Modal Particle gú ‘be able to’   7 Conclusions    10 Locative Predication   1 Introduction   2 Locative Verbs   3 Ventive Extension -áwà   4 Stative Predications   5 Prepositions   6 Spatial Specifiers   7 Cardinal Directions   8 Serial Verb Constructions   9 Conclusions    11 Verbless Clauses   1 Introduction   2 Identificational Clauses   3 Attributive Clauses   4 Existential Clauses   5 Possessive Clauses   6 Temporal Distinctions in the Verbless Clause   7 Conclusions    12 System of Reference   1 Introduction   2 Anaphoric Reference to Participants   3 Remote Previous Mention   4 Referential Object Clitic =a   5 Anaphoric Reference to Location, Time, and Events   6 Deictic Reference to Participants   7 Unspecified Referent   8 Conclusions    13 Interrogatives   1 Introduction   2 Polar Interrogatives   3 Disjunctive Questions: X or Y?   4 Content Interrogatives   5 Questions in the Domain de dicto   6 Conclusions    14 Negative Predication   1 Introduction   2 Negating the Verbless Clause   3 Negation in the Verbal Clause   4 Coding Tense in the Negative Clause   5 Negating the Non-referential Subject   6 Conclusions    15 Topics and Topicalization   1 Introduction   2 Topicalized Subject   3 Topicalized Direct Object   4 Topicalized Indirect Object   5 Other Topicalized Constituents   6 Non-constituent Topic   7 Shift in Topic   8 Conclusions    16 Contrastive Focus   1 Introduction   2 Focused Subject   3 Focused Object   4 Focused Predicate   5 Contrastive Focus on Other Constituents   6 Conclusions    17 Conjoining Clauses   1 Introduction   2 Parataxis (Asyndetic Conjunction)   3 The Conjunction páɗ   4 Sequential Conjunction   5 Conjoining Affirmative and Negative Clauses   6 Conclusions    18 Complement Clauses   1 Introduction   2 Comment on a Noun Phrase   3 Comment on an Adjunct   4 Comment on the Protasis   5 Comment on the Purpose Clause   6 Comment on the Matrix Clause   7 Comment on a Complete Clause   8 Interrogative as Comment   9 Conclusions    19 Relative Clauses   1 Introduction   2 Form of the Relative Clause   3 Tense and Aspect in the Relative Clause   4 Coding the Role of the Relativized Constituent   5 Conclusions    20 Conditional and Temporal Constructions   1 Introduction   2 Conditional\/Temporal Protasis   3 Conclusions    21 Complementation   1 Introduction   2 Complements of Verbs   3 Conclusions    22 Coding Purpose and Reason   1 Introduction   2 Irrealis Purpose Adjuncts   3 Reason Phrases   4 Conclusions    23 Comparative Constructions   1 Introduction   2 Equal Comparison   3 Unequal Comparison   4 Conclusions    24 Adjuncts   1 Introduction   2 Temporal Adjuncts   3 Manner Adjuncts   4 Interjections and Terms of Address   5 Intensifiers   6 Ideophones   7 Conclusions    25 Sample Texts   1 Introduction   2 The Story of Kay and Her Brother Gòló (Narrated by Saini Sikoua in 2006)   3 A History of Muturua (Narrated by Saini Sikoua in 2007)    Appendix 1: A Compilation of Tables  Appendix 2: A Summary of Morphological Forms and Functions  Giziga-English Lexicon  English-Giziga Lexicon  References  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210813104471,"sku":"9789004445901","price":168.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-grammar-of-giziga-a-chadic-language-of-far-north-cameroon-9789004445901","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}