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A Grammar of Eton Mark L.O. Van de Velde

A Grammar of Eton By Mark L.O. Van de Velde

A Grammar of Eton by Mark L.O. Van de Velde


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Presents a grammatical description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton, spoken just north of the capital Yaounde. This study provides an analysis of Eton's sound structures and of the structure of words and clauses, both simple and complex, complemented by a lexicon and a small collection of texts.

A Grammar of Eton Summary

A Grammar of Eton by Mark L.O. Van de Velde

A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is carefully analysed and presented in a simple and consistent descriptive framework, which permits the reader to keep track of Eton's many tonal morphemes. Phonologists will be especially interested in the analysis of stem initial prominence, which manifests itself in a number of logically independent phenomena, including length of the onset consonant, phonotactic skewing and number of tonal attachment sites. Typologists and Africanists working on morphosyntax will find useful analyses of, among others, gender and agreement; tense, aspect, mood and negation; and verbal derivation. They will encounter many morphosyntactic differences between Eton and the better known Eastern and Southern Bantu languages, often due to evolutions shaped by maximality constraints on stems. The chapters on clause structure and complex constructions provide data hardly found in sources on the languages of the region, including descriptions of non-verbal clauses, focus, quasi-auxiliaries and adverbial clauses.

A Grammar of Eton Reviews

This monograph is an admirable piece of work.Picus Sizhi Ding in: Linguist List 22.1573 Insgesamt handelt es sich um einen wertvollen deskriptiven Beitrag zu einer noch immer wenig beschriebenen Gruppe des Bantu. Die vielen exzellent prasentierten Beispiele und das u. a. online verfugbare zusatzliche Material durften kunftige komparative Arbeiten sehr erleichtern und ausgesprochen anregend fur weitere Forschungen sein.Anne Storch in: Orientalische Literaturzeitung 105 (2010) 4-5

About Mark L.O. Van de Velde

Mark L. O. van de Velde, University of Antwerpen, Belgium.

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NPB9783110204407
9783110204407
3110204401
A Grammar of Eton by Mark L.O. Van de Velde
New
Hardback
De Gruyter
2008-06-17
450
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