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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Phonology | 7 |
Nouns | 75 |
Verbs | 127 |
Other word classes | 151 |
Noun phrases | 189 |
Simple clauses | 237 |
Serial verb constructions | 283 |
Focus and topic constructions | 467 |
Relative clauses | 487 |
Nondeclarative speech acts | 517 |
Interclausal connections | 549 |
Texts | 607 |
Vocabulary | 675 |
Notes | 701 |
References | 738 |
Aspect tense modality and negation | 307 |
Transitivity and voice | 399 |
Complement clauses | 421 |
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Common terms and phrases
adverb adverbial clause ahá anaphoric and.NARR auxiliary bagé Bamb be.there borrowed from Bambara bush cows chapter clitic coded complement clause COND conjunction consonant copula coreference coreferential definite suffix direct object downstep event following example function gender 1 singular genitive Givón Gloss head noun imperfective form impfv indefinite intr intransitive IP-come Kà u ú kàrè locative m-pá ma-á maá màha main clause marker meaning mìì modality mpyi náhá NARR nasal NEG PERF noun class ɲyɛ past PERF go plural postposition prefix PROG pronoun realis relative clause relativized noun phrase root s/he PERF secondary release semantic Senufo languages serial construction serial verb Sikasso speaker stative stative verbs SUBJUNC suffix tense tense-aspect transitive verbs tune unstressed vowel wùù Лує