Difference between revisions of "Typological Features Template for Ewe"
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Revision as of 15:00, 19 November 2009
Feature | Description | ||
Phonological Features | |||
Vowel inventory | |||
Vowel harmony | |||
Consonant inventory | |||
Tone | |||
Syllable Structure | The two basic syllable structure in Ewe are CV and CCV. Where it is CCV, the second consonant in the the cluster is always a liquid. Where words borrowed in the language have consonants clusters other than the permissible one in the language, the cluster is broken by either deleting one of the consonants or inserting a vowel between the consonants in the cluster. Also, when a borrowed word has a coda in the last syllable of a word, the coda is deleted or a final vowel is added to the word]. | ||
Morpho-syntactic Features | |||
morphological classification (1) | |||
morphological classification (2) | |||
Nominal Phrases | |||
syntactic structure | The linear order of the Ewe NP → N (Adj) Det. | ||
nominal modification | |||
nominal specification | |||
possession | There are a number of ways in which possession is marked in Ewe. Where a possessive pronoun is used, the possessed noun is juxtaposed to the pronoun. For the first person pronoun, the possessed precedes the possessive pronoun. However, if a any noun other than a possessive pronoun is used, the possessive marker, ƒe, occurs after the possessor and before the possessed noun.However, if the possessed is a kingship term, the possessive marker, ƒe, is omitted. Here, the two nouns are juxtaposed to each other. | ||
pronominal system | |||
Verbal Phrases | |||
word order | |||
TAM | |||
infinitival forms | |||
verbal constructions | Adpositions | In this field you indicate if [your language | |
Complementation | In this field you describe complementation strategies. Does [your language] make use of complementizers? | ||
Special Properties of [your language] | In this field you should mention properties of [your language] which did not fit into any of the other categories mentioned in this template |