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A Grammar of the Kolokuma Dialect of Ịjọ
Contributor(s): Williamson, Kay (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521175267     ISBN-13: 9780521175265
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $32.29  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Foreign Language Study | African Languages (see Also Swahili)
Dewey: 496
Series: West African Language Monographs
Physical Information: 0.29" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" L (0.50 lbs) 136 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - West Africa
Features: Index, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
First published in 1968, this monograph is a descriptive grammar of a dialect of Ịjọor (Ijaw), a language spoken in the Niger Delta area of Southern Nigeria. The dialect described, Kolokuma, is a central one, quite widely understood. The most interesting features of the language, on which the monograph concentrates, are its syntax and its tonal system. An attempt is made to treat them according to a generative-transformational theory of language. The tonal system is of an unusual type whereby the tones that words bear in isolation are considerably modified according to the syntactic context the word appears in. Syntax and tones are therefore bound closely together, and the grammar is written so as to give rules first for the syntactic sequences of words and then for the tone patterns that will occur on these sequences.
 
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