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A Grammar of Mina (Hardcover)
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A Grammar of Mina (Hardcover)
Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]
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A Grammar of Mina is a reference grammar of a hitherto undescribed
and endangered Central Chadic language. The book contains a
description of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and all the
functional domains encoded by this language. For each hypothesis
regarding a form of linguistic expression and its function, ample
evidence is given. The description of formal means and of the
functions coded by these means is couched in terms accessible to
all linguists regardless of their theoretical orientations. The
outstanding characteristics of Mina include: vowel harmony; use of
phonological means, including vowel deletion and vowel retention,
to code phrasal boundaries; two tense and aspectual systems, each
system carrying a different pragmatic function; a lexical category
'locative predicator' hitherto not observed in other languages;
some tense, aspect, and mood markers that occur before the verb,
and others that occur after the verb; the markers of interrogative
and negative modality that occur in clause-final position; the
conjunction used for a conjoined noun phrase in the subject
function that differs from the conjunction used for a conjoined
noun phrase in all other functions.In addition to the coding of
argument structure, adjuncts, tense, aspect, and mood categories,
Mina also codes the category point-of-view. The language has a
clausal category 'comment clause' used in both simple and complex
sentences, which overtly marks the speaker's comment on the
proposition. The discourse structure has the principle of unity of
place. If one of the participants in a described event changes
scene, that is coded by a special syntactic construction in
addition to any verb of movement that may be used. Because of these
unusual linguistic characteristics, the Grammar of Mina will be of
interest to a wide range of linguists.
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