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 |
NOUN PHRASE SYNTAX | 10 |
SEGMENTAL PHONOLOGY | 12 |
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auxiliary báa Bauchi bíy Chadic clitic cognate complement Conditional Future consonant construction d-àa deverbal noun direct object discourse discussion downstepped elicited enclitics environments examples floating tones function genitive gerund Gituwa go-ICP goat Hausa Imperfective intransitive intransitive verbs jíy Kasham kwáa lexical locative LOW RAISING màa mán Mangila marker mbərgu mədə mən mid vowels mìy Miya món MONOVERBS moras morpheme morphological nákən narrative Nduya Ngizim nominal subjects nominal TAM's noun phrase obstruents palatalized participle Perfective pluractional POLYVERB postverbal preceding prefix preposition proclitic pronominal pronoun questioned or focused relative clauses root s-áa sáy semantic sentences sequence səbə singular sorghum stative Subjunctive suffix súw syllable syntactic texts tlən tonal domain tonal phrase tone class tone pattern Toneless Toneless domain tòo underlying Vaziya verb verbal TAM's Warji word