Difference between revisions of "Typological Features Template for Ewe"

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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

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-|In this field you indicate the basic word order of your language (SOV, SOV ...)
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-|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?
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 |infinitival forms
-|In this field you indicate if [your language] makes use of an infinitive marker? How many infinitival forms does your language have?
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-| 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?
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-|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?
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