A Grammar of MiyaA Grammar of Miya describes a language of the Chadic family spoken in Northern Nigeria. This is the first documentation of Miya aside from word lists. The grammar describes all aspects of the language. Of particular typological interest are the tone system, a "terraced level" system in which tone operates over multi-syllabic domains, and word order, which is VXS in many contexts. |
Contents
THE MIYA PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE | 1 |
SEGMENTAL PHONOLOGY | 12 |
TONAL PHONOLOGY | 37 |
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appear associated auxiliary beginning clauses clitic complement Conditional consonants construction context deverbal noun difference direct object discourse discussion domain elicitation environments event examples expressed final focus focused function Future genitive gerund give goat grammatical Hausa illustrate Imperative Imperfective indirect initial interpretation intransitive jíy Kasham kwáa languages lexical locative marker marking meaning Miya món nominal Note noun noun phrase object PALATALIZED pattern Perfective person phrase plural position possible preceding prefix preposition present pronominal pronoun question RAISING reference relative root rules s-áa semantic sentences sequence singular structure Subjunctive suffix súw syllable syntactic TAM's texts tonal tone Toneless topic translation underlying verb verbal vowel