A Grammar of Mina.9783110185652 A grammar of Mina. Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Eric Johnston. Walter de Gruyter 2005 506 pages $207.20 Hardcover Mouton mouton lamb pelt made to resemble seal or beaver. grammar library; 36 PL8515 The word for a single Mina speaker translates to "one who belongs to the place." Mina, a language which itself belongs to the central branch of Chadic, is spoken in the western part of Northern Cameroon in a small number of villages and settlements where most denizens are cultivators of sorghum, peanuts and cotton (by men) and sesame, beans and green peas (by women). Although the life of Mina speakers tends to be simple and the language is confined, dialects abound and sometimes speakers from the same village speak different dialects. Gathered on site from 1991 to 1999, the information here includes phonology phonology, study of the sound systems of languages. It is distinguished from phonetics, which is the study of the production, perception, and physical properties of speech sounds; phonology attempts to account for how they are combined, organized, and convey meaning , the structure of the nun phrase, the verb and its forms, argument and event coding, locative locative (lŏk`ətĭv) [Lat.,=placing], in the grammar of certain languages (e.g., Sanskrit), the case referring to location. Nouns in this case are often translatable into English phrases beginning with at, in, or on. prediction and locative complements, adjuncts, goal-oriented extension, aspects, modality, end-of-event coding, negation, verbless and interrogative clauses, reference systems, focus constructions, topicalization, parataxis par·a·tax·is n. The juxtaposition of clauses or phrases without the use of coordinating or subordinating conjunctions, as It was cold; the snows came. , complementation Complementation (genetics) The complementary action of different genetic factors. The term usually implies two homologous chromosomes or chromosome sets, each defective because of mutation and unable by itself to promote the normal development or metabolism of , clauses, purpose and elements of discourse structure. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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