| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 432 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Mouton grammar library ; 46 |
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Mouton grammar library ; 46.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Phonology; Chapter 3 Nouns; Chapter 4 Verbs; Chapter 5 Other word classes; Chapter 6 Nominals; Chapter 7 Tense, aspect, mood and negation; Chapter 8 The clause; Chapter 9 Complex constructions; Backmatter. |
| Summary |
A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is carefully analysed and presented in a simple and consistent descriptive framework, which permits the reader to keep track of Eton's many tonal morphemes. Phonologists will be especially interested in the analysis of stem initial prominence, which manifests itself in a number of logically independent phenomena, including length of the onset consonant, phonotactic skewing and number of tonal attachmen. |
| Subject |
Eton language (Cameroon) -- Grammar.
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Eton (African people) -- Languages.
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Cameroon -- Languages.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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Grammatik.
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Eton <Sprache>.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Velde, Mark L.O. van de, 1976- Grammar of Eton. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 9783110204407 3110204401 (DLC) 2008018209 (OCoLC)226314488 |
| ISBN |
9783110207859 (electronic bk.) |
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3110207850 (electronic bk.) |
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