{"product_id":"a-grammar-of-mursi-a-nilo-saharan-language-of-ethiopia-9789004449893","title":"A Grammar of Mursi: A Nilo-Saharan Language of Ethiopia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMursi is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by a small group of people who live in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, and is one of the most endangered languages of the country.  Based on the fieldwork that the author conducted in beautiful villages of the Mursi community, this descriptive grammar is organized into fourteen chapters rich in examples and an appendix containing four transcribed texts. The readers are thus provided with a clear and useful tool, which constitutes and important addition to our knowledge of Mursi and of other related languages spoken in the area.  Besides being an empirical data source for linguists interested in typology and endangered language description and documentation, the grammar constitutes an invaluable gift to the speech community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Tables, Maps, Diagrams, and Figures  Abbreviations and Conventions    1 Introduction   1.1 The Mursi People: Historical Background   1.2 Linguistic Profile of Mursi   1.3 Geography and Mursi Neighbours   1.4 Economy and Subsistence   1.5 Traditional Leadership   1.6 Local Groups, Clans, Kinship System and Age Sets   1.7 Major Traditional Practices   1.8 Cattle, Color Terms and Naming   1.9 Linguistic Affiliation   1.10 Sociolinguistic Situation   1.11 Previous Studies; Ethnographic Exploration in the Lower Omo Valley   1.12 Fieldwork Methodology and Language Data    2 Phonology   2.1 Introduction   2.2 Notes on Orthography and Phonetic Transcriptions   2.3 Inventory of Phonemes   2.4 Syllable Structure   2.5 Phonological Processes   2.6 Tone   2.7 Wordhood   2.8 Clitics   2.9 Special Phonology   2.10 Female Register    3 Word Classes   3.1 Introduction   3.2 Open Word Classes   3.3 Closed Word Classes    4 Noun Phrase Structure   4.1 Introduction   4.2 Non-clausal Modifiers of NP   4.3 Clausal Modifiers   4.4 Nominalizers   4.5 Complex Modification   4.6 Summary of Head-Modifier Dependency Relation    5 Possession   5.1 Introduction   5.2 Juxtaposed System   5.3 Possessive Construction with A and B Possessors   5.4 Possessive Construction with C-type (Possessive Pronouns)   5.5 Pertensive   5.6 Noun Modification Constructions   5.7 Predicative Possessive Construction   5.8 Summary    6 Number   6.1 Introduction   6.2 The Realization of Number   6.3 Suffixation   6.4 Suppletion   6.5 Number Marking by Tone   6.6 n\/g Alternation   6.7 The Bound Number\/Aspect Marking Forms -t\/-ɗ   6.8 Additional Suffixes   6.9 Number-Determined Suppletive Verb Forms   6.10 Reduplication   6.11 Number Words   6.12 Number and Agreement    7 The Verb and Predicate Structure   7.1 Introduction   7.2 Phonological Properties of Verb Roots   7.3 Morphological Properties    8 Adjectives   8.1 Introduction   8.2 Phonological Properties of Adjectives   8.3 Morphological Properties of Adjectives   8.4 Syntactic Properties   8.5 Semantic Properties   8.6 Summary    9 Valency Changing Operations   9.1 Introduction   9.2 Valency Decreasing Derivations   9.3 Valency-Increasing Derivations    10 Grammatical Relations   10.1 Introduction   10.2 Constituent Order   10.3 Case Markers   10.4 Adpositions   10.5 Verb-Final Suffix    11 Comparative Constructions   11.1 Introduction   11.2 Mono-clausal Comparative Construction   11.3 Phrasal plus Mono-clausal Construction   11.4 Bi-clausal Construction Type I   11.5 Bi-clausal Construction Type II   11.6 ɓá Construction   11.7 Other Types of Comparative Constructions   11.8 Equality Construction    12 Questions   12.1 Introduction   12.2 Content Questions   12.3 Non-interrogative Particles   12.4 Tag Questions   12.5 Polar Questions   12.6 Other Question Strategies    13 Negation   13.1 Introduction   13.2 Bound Negators   13.3 Negating a Copula Clause   13.4 Negative Existential Verb níŋɛ ‘Not Present’   13.5 Inherently Negative Verb ímág   13.6 Indefinite-Like Words   13.7 Interjection ɪmm ɪmm ‘no’   13.8 Tracing and Linking Negators    14 Clause Types, Clause Combining and Coordination   14.1 Introduction   14.2 Clause Types   14.3 Clause Coordination    Appendix: Transcribed Texts  Bibliography  Subject Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210818052439,"sku":"9789004449893","price":202.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-grammar-of-mursi-a-nilo-saharan-language-of-ethiopia-9789004449893","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}