A Grammar of Mani 1st Edition by Tucker Childs 3110264978 9783110264975

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ISBN 10: 3110264978 

ISBN 13: 9783110264975

Author: G. Tucker Childs

This book provides a complete grammar of the Mani language spoken in the Samu (alternate French spelling “Samou”) region of Sierra Leone and Guinea. The data come from a short pilot study conducted in 2000, and a larger study taking place over two years 2004-2006. That the Mani language will soon disappear is certain; just as certain is that this grammar will be the only one ever written.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

1. Project location

2. Mani nomenclature

3. Demographics

4. Classification

5. Historical background

6. Pilot study: Language assessment survey (2000)

7. The Mani Documentation Project (2004–06)

8. Typological overview

Chapter 2: Phonemic inventory

1. The consonants of Mani

2. The vowels of Mani

3. Syllabic nasals

Chapter 3: Prosody

1. Nasalization

2. Syllable structure

3. Syllable-structure changes

4. Tone

5. Intonation

Chapter 4: Word categories

1. Nouns

2. Names

3. Pronouns
   3.1 Personal pronouns
   3.2 Noun class pronouns
   3.3 Demonstrative pronouns
   3.4 Indefinite and locative pronouns
   3.5 Reflexivity and reciprocity

4. Numbers

5. Adjectives and related forms
   5.1 Adjectives
   5.2 Demonstrative adjectives
   5.3 Articles
   5.4 Quantifiers and ordinal numbers

6. Verbs and verbal forms

7. The Copula

8. Adverbs

9. Ideophones

10. Adpositions

11. Conjunctions

12. Particles

Chapter 5: Some remarks on semantics

1. Family relations

2. Mental and bodily states

3. Time words

4. Mood

Chapter 6: The noun class system

1. The wɔ class

2. The ŋα class (human plurals)

3. The lε class

4. The sα class (animal plurals) and animate concord

5. The nyε class

6. The tα class (inanimate plurals)

7. The mα class

8. The noun-like indefinite pronoun pε

9. Final comments on the noun class system

Chapter 7: Verbal morphology

1. Habitual

2. Perfective

3. Imperfective

4. Past

5. Hortative

6. Negative

7. Co-occurrence of kα and ce (summarized)

8. Other verbal matters

Chapter 8: Derivational morphology

1. Verb extensions
   1.1 Benefactive
   1.2 Causative
   1.3 Stative
   1.4 Completive
   1.5 Middle
   1.6 Pluractional reduplication
   1.7 Final comments on verb extensions

2. Other derivational processes
   2.1 Adjectivalization
   2.2 Nominalization
   2.3 Masculine and feminine nouns / animals
   2.4 Adverbialization

Chapter 9: Compounding

Chapter 10: Phrase-level syntax

1. The noun phrase
   1.1 Possession
   1.2 Attributive constructions
   1.3 Distributive

2. The verb phrase
   2.1 i Insertion
   2.2 Split predicates, the S-Aux-O-V-X syntagm
   2.3 The Inner VP

3. The adpositional phrase

Chapter 11: Clause-level syntax

1. Questions

2. Focus

3. Comparative constructions

4. Topicalization

Chapter 12: Subordination and coordination

1. Embedding

2. Relativization

3. Subordinate clauses

4. Coordination

Chapter 13: Discourse and pragmatics

1. Discourse particles

2. Salutations, politeness formulae, terms of address

Appendices
Appendix 1: Texts

• “How to fish on the open sea”

• A section from a Mani history

• “Tomro and the hippopotamus”

• A Mani lullaby

• Some Mani proverbs

• Some Mani insults

Appendix 2: Pedagogical materials

• Sample pages from a Mani primer (Childs 2007)

• Story from a Mani primer

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