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The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 2 - A Descriptive Grammar (Paperback)
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The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 2 - A Descriptive Grammar (Paperback)
Series: Publications in Linguistics (Sil)
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This groundbreaking study addresses all grammatical levels of
Kifuliiru, a Bantu J language of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Together with its companion volume (The Kifuliiru Language: Volume
1: Tone, Phonology, and Morphological Derivation), this is one of
the most thorough Bantu grammars available, aiming to describe all
grammatical features found in over 100 narrative texts, and to
provide natural examples. At the word level, this book covers
nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, demonstratives, locatives,
ideophones and interjections. The chapter on verbs catalogues the
extremely wide range of tenses, aspects, and moods. There is a
comprehensive chapter on reduplication, and another on proverbs. At
the clause level, information structure is carefully presented,
including possible alternations of the default clause word order. A
complete set of distinct interclausal relations is also laid out.
Of particular interest is a detailed study of narrative discourse,
an area that most Bantu grammars to date do not cover. This study
includes a fascinating section on tight-knit conversations. Also
noted are various development markers, which demarcate two distinct
levels of thematic salience. Intonation and pauses are also
described, including a typical long pause between topic and
comment. Many of the discourse features described in this book are
common to Bantu languages, and thus this volume invites invite
further comparative study. The contents of this book have already
provided a springboard for extensive discourse study in dozens of
related languages. Roger Van Otterloo received his Masters Degree
in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1976.
He and his wife Karen (author of Volume 1) have worked with SIL
among the Kifuliiru-speaking community since 1980, living in their
communities from 1980-1996.
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