A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu
language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a
North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is
carefully analysed and presented in a simple and consistent
descriptive framework, which permits the reader to keep track of
Eton's many tonal morphemes. Phonologists will be especially
interested in the analysis of stem initial prominence, which
manifests itself in a number of logically independent phenomena,
including length of the onset consonant, phonotactic skewing and
number of tonal attachment sites. Typologists and Africanists
working on morphosyntax will find useful analyses of, among others,
gender and agreement; tense, aspect, mood and negation; and verbal
derivation. They will encounter many morphosyntactic differences
between Eton and the better known Eastern and Southern Bantu
languages, often due to evolutions shaped by maximality constraints
on stems. The chapters on clause structure and complex
constructions provide data hardly found in sources on the languages
of the region, including descriptions of non-verbal clauses, focus,
quasi-auxiliaries and adverbial clauses.
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