Manambu Grammar Publication - Contents Overview
Article Index
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1 Introduction: The Language and its Speakers (pdf 418 kb)
- 1.1 Linguistic type
- 1.2 The Manambu: the present and the past
- 1.2.1 Environment and subsistence
- 1.2.2 The Manambu villages
- 1.2.3 Dwelling patterns: the structure of villages
- 1.2.4 Houses and their structure
- 1.3 Social organization, kinship, and name ownership
- 1.3.1 Clan membership, kinship, and mortuary ritual
- 1.3.2 Name ownership and name debates
- 1.4 Relationships with neighbours and recent history
- 1.4.1 Indigenous neighbours and traditional warfare
- 1.4.2 Relationships with outsiders
- 1.5 Linguistic affiliation and prehistory
- 1.5.1 The Ndu language family
- 1.5.2 The varieties of Manambu
- 1.5.3 Origins and putative prehistory
- 1.6 Linguistic situation
- 1.7 What we know about the Manambu language
- 1.8 Basis for this study
- Appendix 1.1 Early documentation of Manambu
- 2.1 Segmental phonology
- 2.1.1 Consonants
- 2.1.2 Vowels
- 2.1.3 Unusual phonetic patterns
- 2.2 Syllable structure
- 2.2.1 Syllable types
- 2.2.2 Vowel sequences and diphthongs
- 2.3 Stress
- 2.3.1 Stress assignment
- 2.3.2 Stress shift
- 2.4 Phonological structure of morphemes, and syllable weight
- 2.4.1 Phonological structure of verbal and non-verbal roots
- 2.4.2 Syllable weight and evidence for iambic stress in verbs
- 2.5 Phonological word
- 2.5.1 General properties
- 2.5.2 When one grammatical word corresponds to more than one phonological word
- 2.5.3 When two or three grammatical words form one phonological word
- 2.6 Phonological processes
- 2.7 Intonation patterns
- 3.1 Cross-referencing
- 3.2 Grammatical relations marked on noun phrases
- 3.3 ‘Reactivated topic’ demonstratives
- 3.4 Grammatical relations in Manambu: a summary
- 4.1 Nouns
- 4.1.1 Morphophonological subclasses of nouns
- 4.1.2 Semantically and grammatically determined subclasses of nouns
- 4.2 Verbs
- 4.2.1 Verbal grammatical categories
- 4.2.2 Semantically and grammatically determined subclasses of verbs
- 4.3 Adjectives
- 4.3.1 Agreeing and non-agreeing adjectives
- 4.3.2 Adjectives in comparison with nouns and verbs
- 4.3.3 Semantics of adjectives
- 4.4 Adverbs
- 4.5 Closed classes
- 4.5.1 Modal words
- 4.5.2 Postpositions
- 4.5.3 Particles and connectives
- 4.5.4 Interjections and onomatopoeia
- 4.5.5 ‘Pro-sentences’
- 4.5.6 Word class assignment of loans and code-switches
5 Gender Marking, Semantics, and Agreement
- 5.1 Gender and number agreement: contexts and forms
- 5.1.1 Agreement contexts
- 5.1.2 Gender and number agreement forms
- 5.1.3 Additional gender and number forms
- 5.1.4 Functions of gender and number agreement
- 5.2 How to choose a gender: semantics, and markedness relationships
- 5.2.1 The semantics of gender choice
- 5.2.2 Mismatches in gender agreement
- 5.2.3 Markedness relations
- 5.3 Overt gender marking
- 6.1 Number marking on nouns
- 6.2 Number agreement
- 6.2.1 Number agreement with mass and collective referents
- 6.2.2 Agreement with associative non-singular
- 6.2.3 ‘Argument elaboration’ constructions, and number agreement
- 6.2.4 Markedness in the number system