A Grammar of Kusaal : A Mabia (Gur) Language of Northern Ghana Hardback
by Agoswin Musah
Part of the Schriften Zur Afrikanistik - Research in African Studies series
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Kusaal is a Mabia (traditional Gur) language spoken in north-eastern Ghana.
Until recently, there was a paucity of linguistic research on the language, thus, the need for a concise and lucid grammar.
The study adopts a holistic linguistic approach to language documentation and description drawing on a corpus of synchronic data collected on fieldtrips.
The analysis of the data is guided by a confluence of structural and functional grammar approaches following Payne (1997) and Dixon’s (2010) Basic Linguistic Theory.
The phonology, nouns and noun class systems, nominal modifiers and relator nouns, verbs, phrases, aspect and modality, clause structure, verb serialisation and pragmatically marked structures are considered together with a speech form similar to «signifying/playing the dozens».
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- Pages:284 pages, 21 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date:28/11/2018
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- ISBN:9783631748688
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:284 pages, 21 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date:28/11/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783631748688
