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Latest revision as of 15:34, 21 July 2014
Mary Esther Dakubu
Feature | Description This page will be further developed mid-2010 |
Phonological Features | |
Vowel inventory | |
Vowel harmony | In this field you describe rule based assimilations involving vowels in [your language] |
Consonant inventory | In this field you describe the consonants of [your language] |
Tone | There appear to be two tones, plus a high-low falling tone on some word-final syllables. |
Syllable Structure | Syllable types include CV, V and N. V and N syllables occur only as grammatical markers. |
Morpho-syntactic Features | In the following fields you describe some of the basic morpho-syntactic parameters of [your language] |
morphological classification (1) | This is a moderately agglutinative language, with nominal prefixes marking singular and plural |
morphological classification (2) | Linguists have distinguished between head- and dependent-marking languages. Semitic languages are head marking languages; it is the head of the noun phrases that needs to have a special form when followed by a dependent noun; in the Germanic languages it is the head of the verb phrase that expresses person-number features of its subject. Grammatical dependencies on the other hand are in some of the Germanic languages expressed on the dependent noun phrases in form of case. [Your language] might be both, head- and dependent-marking, depending on the category of speech and or the type of feature expressed. This is what you can describe in this field. |
Nominal Phrases | In the following fields follows a description of some of the basic morpho-syntactic properties of nominal constituents |
syntactic structure | In this field you describe the linear order of elements in the noun phrase |
nominal modification | In this field you indicate the basic types of nominal modification (adjectives, relative clauses, adpositions...) |
nominal specification | In this field you indicate the basic types of specification. Does [your language] have determiners, demonstratives (deixis), numerals, quantifiers. Are there affixes expressing reference, deixis. Are there nouns or other elements expression a portion of a noun that the co-occur with? |
possession | In this field you describe how possession is expressed (for example, syntactically or by use of prepositions, through juxtaposition or morphologically) Does [your language] feature possessive pronouns? |
pronominal system | In this field you indicate if [your language] has free pronoun forms? Are pronouns marked for their grammatical function (object versus subject pronouns)? Does your language have bound pronouns (affixes) or pronoun doubling? Are reflexives expressed by pronouns? |
Verbal Phrases | In the following fields serve for the description of some of the basic morpho-syntactic properties of verbal constituents |
word order | In this field you indicate the basic word order of your language (SOV, SOV ...) |
TAM | In this field you indicate which tense and/or aspects are morphologically or tonally marked; does [your language] make use of periphrastic tense or aspect constructions? |
infinitival forms | In this field you indicate if [your language] makes use of an infinitive marker? How many infinitival forms does your language have? |
verbal constructions | In this field you indicate if [your language] has ditransitive constructions, serial verb constructions or complex verb forms composed of several verbs. Does your language have so called light verbs, perhaps only used to indicate a certain tense or aspect? |
Adpositions | In this field you indicate if [your language[ makes use of prepositions or postpositions. Does your language have spatial nouns? Does your language use adpositions or particles to indicate grammatical relations between the verb and a nominal argument? |
Complementation | In this field you describe complementation strategies. Does [your language] make use of complementizers? |
Special Properties of [your language] | This North Guang language is almost if not entirely extinct and has no ISO or Ethnologue number. Information here is based on a short wordlist collected at Kpalangase (Northern Region, Ghana) in 2007. |