A grammar of Dagik
Subtitle: a Kordofanian language of Sudan
By: John Vanderelst
Series: Grammatical analyses of African languages -- volume 50 = -- Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen -- Band 50; Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen -- Bd. 50
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9783896455666
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Niger-Congo languages; Grammar; Kordofanian languages; Languages
Other titles: Kordofanian language of Sudan
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Köln, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-263).
Table of contents: title: List of tables, figures and maps --; title: Conventions and abbreviations --; title: Introduction --; title: Language background --; title: Geography --; title: The people --; title: Linguistic varieties --; title: Genetic classification --; title: Language contact --; title: Methods --; title: Fieldwork conditions --; title: Theoretical framework --; title: Phonology --; title: Introduction --; title: Vowels --; title: Vowel phonemes --; title: Vowel harmony --; title: Introduction --; title: Type of harmony --; title: Scope of harmony --; title: Vowel reduction and assimilation --; title: Vowel reduction --; title: Vowel assimilation --; title: Vowel distribution --; title: Vowel length --; title: Nasalization --; title: Vowel sequences --; title: Roots --; title: Polymorphemic words --; title: Off glides --; title: Vowel fusion --; title: Consonants --; title: Consonant phonemes --; title: Plosives --; title: Fricatives --; title: Nasals --; title: Non-nasal sonorants --; title: Lenition domain --; title: Consonant gemination --; title: Consonant clusters --; title: Nasal clusters --; title: Non-nasal clusters --; title: Syllable structure --; title: Syllable types --; title: Weight constraints --; title: Tone --; title: Nominal morphology --; title: Introduction --; title: Establishing the word category --; title: Morphological characteristics --; title: Distributional characteristics --; title: Canonical shapes --; title: Monosyllabic nouns --; title: Disyllabic nouns --; title: Trisyllabic nouns --; title: Quadrisyllable nouns --; title: Pentasyllable nouns --; title: Tone classes --; title: Noun class system --; title: Two-class genders --; title: p-/j-gender --; title: p-/...-gender --; title: p/k-gender --; title: t-/n-gender --; title: ...-/r-gender --; title: k-/w-gender --; title: k-/n-gender --; title: ...-/...-gender --; title: s-/m-gender --; title: Minor two-class genders --; title: Suppletive nouns --; title: Summary --; title: Single-class genders --; title: p-gender --; title: ...-gender --; title: ...-gender --; title: t-gender --; title: m-gender --; title: s-gender --; title: k-gender --; title: w-gender --; title: n-gender --; title: r-gender --; title: j-gender --; title: nd-gender --; title: Noun classes and genders --; title: Number values --; title: Countable nouns --; title: Uncountable nouns --; title: Derivational noun class shift --; title: Diminutives, augmentatives --; title: Semantically related nouns --; title: Agreement system --; title: Kinship nouns --; title: Possessive marking --; title: Plural marking --; title: Agreement --; title: Ethnological remark --; title: Referential marker --; title: Noun creating processes --; title: Reduplication --; title: Conversion --; title: Derivation --; title: Compounding --; title: N+X compounds --; title: N+adj compounds --; title: Lexicalized associative constructions --; title: Blending --; title: Locative nouns --; title: Lexicalized constructions --; title: Nominal modification --; title: Associative construction --; title: Form --; title: Meaning --; title: Demonstratives --; title: Possessives --; title: Numerals --; title: Counting system --; title: Cardinal numerals --; title: Ordinal numerals --; title: Quantifiers --; title: Verbal morphology --; title: Introduction --; title: Canonical shapes --; title: Monosyllabic verbal roots --; title: Di- and trisyllabic verbal roots --; title: Tone patterns --; title: Inflectional classes --; title: Major inflectional classes --; title: Final vowel --; title: Lexicalized -... extension --; title: Semantic basis of the classification --; title: Semantic contribution of FV --; title: Lexicalization of -... --; title: Extensions --; title: Causative --; title: Allomorphs --; title: Valency modification --; title: Subject control --; title: Applicative-benefactive --; title: Allomorphs --; title: Valency modification --; title: Meaning of the integrated argument --; title: Applicative-locative --; title: Allomorphs --; title: Valency modification --; title: Meaning of the integrated argument --; title: Associative --; title: Allomorphs --; title: Valency modification --; title: Meaning of the integrated argument --; title: Middle voice --; title: Allomorphs --; title: Valency modification --; title: Semantic range of the extension --; title: Inchoative-stative --; title: Iterative --; title: Extension combinations --; title: Inflectional morphology --; title: Overview --; title: Imperative --; title: Imperative singular --; title: Imperative plural --; title: Negative imperative --; title: Perfective aspect --; title: Form --; title: Meaning --; title: Imperfective aspect --; title: Form --; title: Meaning --; title: Progressive --; title: Form --; title: Meaning --; title: Prospective --; title: Form --; title: Meaning --; title: Suppletive and defective verbs --; title: Verbal status --; title: Negation --; title: Clause negation --; title: Constituent negation --; title: Verbal sub-types --; title: Inchoative-stative and eventive verbs --; title: Expanded verbs --; title: Form --; title: Valency --; title: Verb creating processes --; title: Conversion --; title: Verb-to-verb derivation --; title: Pluractional derivation --; title: Suffixation --; title: Prefixation --; title: Category changing derivation --; title: Verbs and nouns --; title: Verbs and adjectives --; title: Verbal collocations --; title: Valency --; title: Adjectives --; title: Introduction --; title: Morphosyntactic characteristics --; title: Canonical shapes --; title: Simplex adjectives --; title: Complex adjectives --; title: Tone classes --; title: Distribution --; title: Prototypical adjectives --; title: Attributive use --; title: Predicative use --; title: Non-prototypical adjectives --; title: Adjectival modification --; title: Strengthening --; title: Adverbial modification --; title: Reduplication --; title: Locative cliticization --; title: Segment lengthening --; title: Suffixation --; title: Weakening --; title: The adverb ... --; title: The morpheme ... --; title: The adjective j-... --; title: Adjectival comparison --; title: Color adjectives --; title: Pronouns and indexes --; title: Introduction --; title: Encoding the subject --; title: Encoding the demoted subject --; title: Encoding the object --; title: Existing paradigms for object encoding --; title: Summary --; title: Functions of the P3 paradigms --; title: Encoding flexibility --; title: Combination of pronouns, indexes --; title: Available syntactic slots --; title: Possible combinations --; title: Additional paradigms --; title: Paradigm P4 --; title: Paradigm P5 --; title: Paradigm P6 --; title: Animacy --; title: Spatial and temporal meanings --; title: Introduction --; title: Locative markers --; title: Adverbs --; title: Underived adverbs --; title: Derived adverbs --; title: Expression of spatial meaning --; title: Concepts --; title: Expressing location --; title: Expressing oriented motion --; title: Ground-orientation --; title: DC-orientation --; title: Verbal sequences expressing oriented motion --; title: Two-point oriented motions --; title: Summary --; title: Non-specialized spatial expressions --; title: Locative nouns --; title: Locative associative constructions --; title: Locative relative constructions --; title: Deictic locative nouns --; title: Cardinal orientation --; title: Expression of time --; title: Relative time-frames --; title: Absolute time-frames --; title: Clause structure --; title: Introduction --; title: Predication types --; title: Comparing verbal, nominal, and adjectival predications --; title: Copulas --; title: Morphosyntactic characteristics --; title: Semantic range of copulas --; title: Passive clauses --; title: Morphosyntactic characteristics --; title: The demoted subject --; title: Roles --; title: Syntactic roles --; title: Semantic roles --; title: Morphological encoding --; title: Syntactic roles : semantic roles mapping --; title: Multiple object constructions --; title: Verbal sequences --; title: VS expressing aspectual characteristics --; title: VS expressing modality --; title: Deontic modality --; title: Epistemic modality --; title: VS expressing complex events --; title: Questions --; title: Polar questions --; title: Content questions --; title: Dependent clauses --; title: Juxtaposed clauses --; title: Coordinated clauses --; title: Consecutive clauses --; title: Verb-initial consecutive clauses --; title: Non-verb-initial consecutive clauses --; title: Object clauses --; title: Adjunct clauses --; title: Temporal clauses --; title: Conditional clauses --; title: Relative clauses --; title: Summary --; title: Information structure --; title: Argument focus --; title: Subject focus --; title: Object focus --; title: Verb focus --; title: Topic marking --; title: Appendices --; title: Transcription and orthographic conventions --; title: Text : the snake --; title: Dagik-English wordlist ---- References.