Difference between revisions of "Typological Features Template for Konkomba"

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by Mary Steele

Feature	Description
Phonological Features
Vowel inventory	a, aa, e, ee, i, ii, u, uu, o, oo, ɔ, ɔɔ
Vowel harmony	Konkomba does not have vowel harmony.
Consonant inventory	p, t, ch, f, b, d, g, gb, k, kp, p, h, j, l, m, n, ŋ, ŋm, r, s, w, y
Tone	Yes, but tones are not marked in the orthography. Some minimal tone pairs are marked by spelling, using a silent letter /h/
Syllable Structure	cv, cvv, cvc, cvvc, v, vv
Morpho-syntactic Features	In the following fields you describe some of the basic morpho-syntactic parameters of [your language]
morphological classification (1)	[Your language] could be an isolating language (not (or nearly not) making use of morphology, agglutinative, such as the Bantu languages of Africa, or synthetic, such as the Saami languages of Scandinavia, or even polysynthetic such as Greenlandic. In this field you classify [your language] according to these parameters if possible.
morphological classification (2)	Konkomba is a dependent marking language.
Nominal Phrases	In the following fields follows a description of some of the basic morpho-syntactic properties of nominal constituents
syntactic structure	linear order of elements in the noun phrase: N-ADJ/NUM-DET
nominal modification	There are few adjectives in Konkomba. Often the Adjective is fused with the noun as a suffix, agreeing with the class of the noun. The relative clause normally follows the head noun. The relative pronoun agrees with the noun it modifies in class and number.
nominal specification	Konkomba has determiners, demonstratives, numerals and quantifiers.
possession	In Konkomba possession is expressed by a possessive/associative particle which immediately follows the possessor (if a noun) and is affixed to the possessed element, replacing the class prefix (if present)of the possessed element. Konkomba distinguishes alienable and inalienable possession.
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	SVO
TAM	Future, Imperfect, Perfect, Time-depth marker
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	there is a lot on complementation, please check later.
Special Properties of Konkomba	--

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-|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.
+|Konkomba is a dependent marking language.
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-|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 expressing a portion of a noun that they co-occur with?
+|Konkomba has determiners, demonstratives, numerals and quantifiers.
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 |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? Possession is expressed by a possessive/associative particle which immediately follows the possessor and is affixed to the possessed element, replacing the class prefix (if present)of the possessed element. Konkomba distinguishes alienable and inalienable possession.
+| In Konkomba possession is expressed by a possessive/associative particle which immediately follows the possessor (if a noun) and is affixed to the possessed element, replacing the class prefix (if present)of the possessed element. Konkomba distinguishes alienable and inalienable possession.
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