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A Grammar of Seenku (Hardcover)
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A Grammar of Seenku (Hardcover)
Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]
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Seenku is a Western Mande language of the Samogo group spoken in
southwestern Burkina Faso by approximately 17,000 speakers. It has
undergone a lot of phonological reduction, leading to a rich
segmental and tonal phoneme inventory but mainly mono- and
sesquisyllabic roots. The language has four contrastive levels of
tone that combine to create over a dozen contours. Tone has a high
functional load lexically and grammatically, permeating all aspects
of grammar. Most verbs have two stem forms: a realis form and an
irrealis form. The realis is derived from the irrealis by infixing
a high vowel before the stem vowel, creating a diphthong. The use
of a particular stem form is determined by aspect and construction
type, but most other morphosyntactic meanings (e.g. progressive
aspect or causative) are expressed analytically. Like most Mande
languages, Seenku has an S Aux O V X word order in addition to
areal clause-final negation. It displays a reduced set of
post-subject "predicate markers" compared to other Mande languages,
and those that are attested are variably realized only by tone
changes and lengthening on the subject itself.
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