"African Language Structures" by William Everett Welmers
"African Language Structures" by William Everett Welmers
UCLA Press | 1974 | ISBN: 0520022106 9780520022102 | 499 pages | PDF | 31 MB
UCLA Press | 1974 | ISBN: 0520022106 9780520022102 | 499 pages | PDF | 31 MB
One of our long-standing research goals has been to bring to light the contributions of African languages to our understanding of the human language faculty. African languages have proven to be sources of unsuspectedly rich grammatical and phonological forms which have enlarged our traditional views of language structure.
Contents
1. The Historical and Classificatory Setting
2. Vowel Systems
3. Consonanl Systems
4. Tonal Systems
5. Functions of Tone
6. Noun Class and Concord Systems: An Introduction
7. Functional and Vestigial Noun Class Systems
8. Nonclass Noun Systems
9. Adjectives and Un-adieclives
10. Other Noun Modifiers; Conjunction
11. Being, Having, and Verbs
12. Verbal Constructions in Niger-Conqo
13. Verbal Systems
14. Questions, Relatives, Subordination
15. Adverbials, Ideophones, Semantic Ranges
References
Index of Language Names
with TOC BookMarkLinks