A Grammar of Mina

ISBN-13: 9783110185652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 527 str.

Zygmunt Frajzyngier; Eric Johnston

Opis

A Grammar of Mina is a reference grammar of a hitherto undescribed and endangered Central Chadic language. The book contains a description of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and all the functional domains encoded by this language. For each hypothesis regarding a form of linguistic expression and its function, ample evidence is given. The description of formal means and of the functions coded by these means is couched in terms accessible to all linguists regardless of their theoretical orientations. Because of these unusual linguistic characteristics, the Grammar of Mina will be of interest to a wide range of linguists.

Recenzje

"This reference grammar is packed with interesting facts and one would recommend it for students of Chadic languages and for typologists and general linguists alike."Laura Buszard-Welcher in: Linguist List 18.912

O autorze

Zygmunt Frajzyngier is Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

Eric Johnston is affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.