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Heine, Bernd & Mechthild Reh. 1984. Grammaticalization and Reanalysis in African Languages. Hamburg: Buske.
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0. Introductory remarks
Geo- and sociolinguistic data. Previous studies.
1. Phonology
1.1. Vowels
1.2. Consonats
1.3. Diphthongs, ..
1.4. Suprasegmentals, tones, prosodic phenomena, autosegmentals, accent, intonation
(table form)
2. Morphology
2.1. Nominal morphology
2.1.1. Noun (with a list of nominal grammatical categories)
2.1.1.1. Number
2.1.1.2. Gender/Class
2.1.1.3. Definiteness/Referentiality
2.1.1.4. Case
2.1.1.5. Possession
2.1.2. Pronouns
2.1.2.1. Personal pronouns
2.1.2.2. Demonstratives
2.1.2.3. Reflexives
2.1.2.4. Interrogative pronouns
2.1.2.5. Indefinite pronouns
2.1.2.6. Quantitative pronouns (all, every, ...)
2.1.3. Numerals
2.1.4. Adjectives (comparison of in/equality, ...)
(2.1.4.1. Adverbs, spatial, temporal, causal, degree adverbs, ...)
2.1.5. Nominal categorizers (nominalizers, augmentatives/diminuitives)
2.2. Verbal morphology (with a list of verbal grammatical categories)
2.2.1. Verb
2.2.1.1. Personal affixes (in case of multidimensional paradigms -> illustrative sample paradigm)
2.2.1.2. TAM-system (basic tense-aspect-mood categories: imperfective, perfect, resultative, future, imperative, prohibitive, optative, conditional, potential (or non-fact), ...)
2.2.1.3. Negation
2.2.2. Verbal categorizers (de/transitivizers, verbalizers, anti/causativizers, voice... )
2.2.3. Verbal modifyers (participals, converbs, masdars,
gerunds, ..)
3. Syntax
3.1. Sentence types (copular, verbal clauses)
3.2. Simple sentence (word order: position of the main constituents inside the clause, position inside the main constituents, ...; grammatical relations, subject- or topic-prominent language)
3.3. Complex sentences
3.3.1. Coordination (conjuction, disjunction, juxtaposition, coordinators)
3.3.2. Subordination (relative, adverbial (temporal, causal, final, purpose, conditional, concessive, ..), complement clauses, ...)
3.4. Discourse phenomena (Coreference, ... controller and target of omission in adverbial, complement, relative ... clauses)
(3.4.1. Particles, discourse particles, negative
particles, interjections, ...)
4. Sample texts with interlinear
translation and free translation
Bibliography
Languages of the World /Text Collections (LW/T)
A: Analysis
1) The texts are transcribed by a footnote analysis and a free translation. Morphemic analyses are transferred to the footnote analysis. The text is analysed sentence by sentence.
2) An introductory chapter explains the main typological features of the language, followed by a chapter with some examples and paradigms which can be referred to in the footnote analysis.
3) An index of the most frequent items is added which are not explained in the footnote analysis (with the exeption of the first texts).
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5) The footnote analysis is on the same page as the text and its free translation. The morpheme analysis is transferred to the footnote analysis, which also allows statements on etymological developments of lexemes or morphemes, and also statements on formal as well on functional issues. (see ex. pakupaku in 3. which on the formal levels exhibits REDuplication and on the functional level HABitualis).
6) Critical morphemic analysis should be stated in the footnote analysis.
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8) Each issue contains a section with a collection
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Footnote analysis
Teop, Austronesian, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Speaker: Purupuru
Interviewer: Ruth Saovana Spriggs, compiler: Ulrike Mosel, University of Kiel
Date: July 1994
| 1. Enaa kahi suusue nom a tootoo tenaa
vaa tea vaasusu, tea vaasikuuru, enaa he tavus tisia. | I am going to talk about my life
as a teacher, about teaching, when I became a teacher. |
2. Enaa a peha aba a gogoe skul rakaha roho. | I am a person who very much disliked school in the past. |
| 3. Enaa he teitei vaan, a skul na pakupaku ori. | When I lived in the village, they conducted school. |
| 4. E Donald Ali bara e Aaron Kotosomaa, pakupaku bona skul mea maa vahara beiko paa naonao tea skul, enaa he ahiki. | Donald Ali and Aron Kotosomaa conducted the school and the children went to school, but I didnít. |
(Footnote 1)
| enaa | pron., 1.sg.indep.subj.pron |
| kahi ... nom | tam., immediate future, nom imperfective aspect |
| suusue | v.t. talk about, sue say, cf. (32) |
| a | art.sg., common gender |
| tootoo | n.a., life |
| tenaa | poss.pron., te-naa, prep-1.sg., my (alienable) |
| te | prep., multifunctional |
| vaa | as, seems to be related to the pref., vaa-caus |
| tea | te-a, prep-art |
| vaasusu | n.a., teacher, caus-susu ? |
| vaasikuuru | v. teach, vaa-sikuuru caus-school < T.P. skul school |
| he | conj., expressing that a state of affairs is simulatenous with another state of affairs, often carrying the connotation of contrast |
| tavus | v., become, appear |
| tisia | n., teacher, < Engl. |
(Footnote 2)
| teitei | v.i., hab., live, < tei stay |
| vaan | n.a., village; here used without an artcle in the function of a locative complement |
| na | tam., realis, na V refers to the past, na V impf. to the actual present |
| pakupaku | v.t., hab., do < paku do |
| ori | pron., 3.pl. subj. enclitic pron., a skul na pakupaku ori, word order: O V S |
(Footnote 3)
| teitei | v.i., hab., live, < tei stay |
| vaan | n.a., village; here used without an artcle in the function of a locative complement |
| na | tam., realis, na V refers to the past, na V impf. to the actual present |
| pakupaku | v.t., hab., do < paku do |
| ori | pron., 3.pl. subj. enclitic pron., a skul na pakupaku ori, word order: O V S |
(Footnote 4)
| e | art.sg., personal gender |
| bara | conj., and, used only for the coordination of phrases |
| bona | obj.art.sg., common gender |
| mea | me-a conj-art, me and |
| maa | pl.mkr. |
| vahara | coll.n., group |
| beko | n.a., child; a maa vahara beiko groups of children (??) |
| paa | tam., past |
| naonao | v., hab., go < nao go |
| ahiki | v.neg., be not, do not |
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