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James Essegbey - Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) Language and Culture, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) Language and Culture

Av James Essegbey

Del 8 i serien Africa

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Beskrivning
This is the first comprehensive description of Tutrugbu(Nyangbo-nyb), a Ghana Togo Mountain(gtm) language of the Kwa family. It is based on a documentary corpus of different genre of linguistic and cultural practices gathered during periods of immersion fieldwork. Tutrugbu speakers are almost all bilingual in Ewe, another Kwa language. The book presents innovative analyses of phenomena like Advanced Tongue Root and labial vowel harmony, noun classes, topological relational verbs, the two classes of adpositions, obligatory complement verbs, multi-verbs in a single clause, and information structure. This grammar is unparalleled in including a characterization of culturally defined activity types and their associated speech formulae and routine strategies. It should appeal to linguists interested in African languages, language documentation and typology.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-08-01
  • Mått: 155 x 235 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 747 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Africa
  • Antal sidor: 382
  • Förlag: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004396982
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James Essegbey, Ph.D. (1999), Leiden University, is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures at the University of Florida. He is interested in descriptive, documentary and theoretical linguistics, especially in the domain of syntax, semantics and pragmatics; contact linguistics; language and culture; Kwa languages of West Africa, especially Gbe (i.e. Ewe, Gen, Aja and Fon), Akan, and Ghana-Togo Mountain languages; and creole studies. He has worked on the influence of the Gbe languages on the creoles of Suriname, and the description and documentation of Nyangbo. More recently, he has been working on the description and documentation of Dwang (a north Guang language), and Animere (another GTM language).

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