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Grammar of Luwo : An anthropological approach.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture and Language UsePublisher: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789027269379
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Grammar of LuwoDDC classification:
  • 496/.5
LOC classification:
  • PL8143 -- .S76 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
A Grammar of Luwo -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Location and linguistic affiliation -- 1.1.1 Historical situation -- 1.2 Research history and documentation -- 1.2.1 Missionary linguistics -- 1.2.2 Linguistic description and comparative studies -- 1.3 Fieldwork -- 1.4 Aims of this study -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- 2.1 Segmental phonology -- 2.1.1 Consonants -- 2.1.2 Vowels -- 2.2 Suprasegmental phonology -- 2.2.1 Tone -- 2.2.2 Stress -- 2.3 Syllable structure -- 2.3.1 Syllable types -- 2.3.2 Syllable weight -- 2.4 Morphophonological processes -- 2.4.1 Morphophonological processes concerning consonants -- 2.4.2 Morphophonological processes concerning vowels -- 2.5 Orthography and graphic representation -- Chapter 3. Word classes and other categories -- 3.1 Morphophonological structures -- 3.1.1 Morphemes -- 3.1.2 Words -- 3.2 Open word classes and categories -- 3.2.1 Nouns -- 3.2.2 Verbs -- 3.2.3 Ideophones -- 3.3 Closed word classes and categories -- 3.3.1 Adjectives -- 3.3.2 Adverbs -- 3.3.3 Smell Words -- 3.3.4 Prepositions -- 3.3.5 Numerals -- 3.3.6 Conjunctions -- 3.3.7 Particles -- 3.3.8 Pronouns -- 3.3.9 Interjections -- Chapter 4. Nouns -- 4.1 Morphophonological subclasses -- 4.1.1 Morphologically unmarked nouns -- 4.1.2 Affixed nouns -- 4.2 Grammatically distinctive semantic sub-groups -- 4.2.1 Animacy -- 4.2.2 Alienabilty -- 4.2.3 Countability -- 4.2.4 Location -- 4.2.5 Generic referents -- 4.2.6 Body parts -- 4.3 Status Inflection -- 4.3.1 Modified singular nouns -- 4.3.2 Modified plural nouns -- 4.4 Derivation -- 4.4.1 Deverbal derivation -- 4.4.1.1 Verbal nouns -- 4.4.1.2 Action nouns -- 4.4.1.3 Abstract nouns -- 4.4.1.4 Nouns indicating physical properties -- 4.4.1.5 Agent nouns -- 4.4.1.6 Instrumental nouns -- 4.4.1.7 Locative nouns -- 4.4.2. Denominal derivation.
4.4.2.1 Proper names -- 4.4.2.2 Livestock terms -- 4.4.2.3 Ethnonyms -- 4.4.2.4 Fruit names -- 4.4.2.5 Diminutives -- 4.5 Culturally specified nouns -- 4.5.1 Names and naming -- 4.5.2 Toponyms and clan names -- 4.5.3 Kinship terminology -- 4.5.4 Mythological terms -- Chapter 5. Noun classifiers -- 5.1 Classifiers in Western Nilotic: An overview -- 5.2 Zero-suffixing -- 5.2.1 Simplex nouns -- 5.2.2 Suffixless nouns -- 5.3 Singular suffixes -- 5.3.1 Singulative concepts -- 5.3.2 Animate referents with -ɔ -- 5.3.3 Foreign and movable referents with -a -- 5.3.4 Animate referents with -u -- 5.3.5 Animals and body parts with *-k -- 5.4 Plural Suffixes -- 5.4.1 Plurals with -ɛ́ -- 5.4.2 Plurals with -V[- FRONT, + BREATHY]-ɛ -- 5.4.3 Plurals with -VNɛ́ -- 5.4.4 Plurals with ‑kʌ̀ -- 5.4.5 Plurals with -ɪ̀ -- 5.4.6 Plurals with -th -- 5.5 Noun categorisation devices and their meanings: An overview -- Chapter 6. Number -- 6.1 Number marking on nouns -- 6.1.1 Historical context -- 6.1.2 Tripartite number-marking -- 6.2 Number marking on state verbs and adjectives -- 6.2.1 Pluractional verbs -- 6.2.2 Number-sensitive adjectives -- 6.3 Quantifiers and numerals -- 6.3.1 Quantifiers -- 6.3.2 Numerals -- 6.3.3 Nominal aspect -- Chapter 7. Verbs -- 7.1 Verb roots -- 7.2 Verb stems -- 7.2.1 Transitivity -- 7.2.1.1 Argument inflection and participants -- 7.2.2 Stem formation and derivation -- 7.2.2.1 Antipassive -- 7.2.2.2 Impersonal-passive -- 7.2.2.3 Anticausative -- 7.2.2.4 Instrumental -- 7.2.2.5 Benefactive -- 7.2.2.6 Causative -- 7.2.2.7 Itive-Altrilocal -- 7.2.2.8 Ventive -- 7.2.2.9 Frequentative-Intensive -- 7.3 Verbal inflection -- 7.3.1 Person and pronominal inflection -- 7.3.1.1 Pronominal prefix -- 7.3.1.2 Pronominal suffix -- 7.3.1.3 Object marking -- 7.3.2 Aspect -- 7.3.2.1 Perfective -- 7.3.2.2 Perfective II -- 7.3.2.3 Perfective-durative.
7.3.2.4 Perfective-habitual -- 7.3.2.5 Perfective-progressive -- 7.3.2.6 Perfective-future -- 7.3.2.7 Imperfective -- 7.3.2.8 Imperfective-durative -- 7.3.2.9 Imperfective-habitual -- 7.3.2.10 Imperfective-progressive -- 7.3.2.11 Imperfective-future -- 7.3.3 Mood -- 7.3.3.1 Imperative -- 7.3.3.2 Subjunctive -- 7.4 Light verbs and multiverb constructions -- Chapter 8. Person and experience -- 8.1 Personal pronouns -- 8.1.1 Subject pronouns, logophoricity and focus -- 8.1.2 Suffixed personal pronouns -- 8.1.3 Object pronouns -- 8.2 Experiencer pronouns and coding emotion -- 8.3 Comparative and superlative -- 8.4 Indefinites -- Chapter 9. Perception and cognition -- 9.1 Truth as state or event -- 9.2 Perception verbs -- 9.2.1 Knowing and understanding -- 9.2.2 Sensory perception -- 9.2.3 'Recognise' as search and action -- 9.3 Anticausative and ambitransitive constructions -- 9.3.1 Smell and taste terms -- 9.4 The transmission of knowledge -- 9.5 Some conclusions -- Chapter 10. Possession and association -- 10.1 Nominal possession -- 10.1.1 Possessive pronouns -- 10.1.1.1 Multi-functionality of possessive pronouns -- 10.1.2 Compounding -- 10.1.2.1 Juxtaposition -- 10.1.2.2 Associative -- 10.1.3 Alienability -- 10.2 Predicative possession -- Chapter 11. Word order, case and pragmatics -- 11.1 Overview -- 11.2 Ergative case in Western Nilotic -- 11.3 Establishment of ergativity -- 11.3.1 Transitive clauses -- 11.3.2 Intransitive clauses -- 11.3.3 Cross-reference -- 11.4 Split-ergative patterns -- 11.4.1 Verb-initial clauses -- 11.4.2 Functionally marked NP-initial clauses -- 11.4.3 Animacy constraints -- 11.5 Indefinite marking -- 11.6 Foregrounding and participant marking -- 11.6.1 Foregrounding functions -- 11.7 Summary -- Chapter 12. Location and spatial orientation -- 12.1 Overview -- 12.2 Demonstratives -- 12.2.1 Exophoric demonstratives.
12.2.2 Spatial deictics -- 12.3 Location -- 12.3.1 Prepositions -- 12.3.2 Localising adpositions -- 12.4 Cardinal directions and spatial orientation -- 12.5 Motion -- 12.5.1 Motion verbs -- 12.6 Space -- 12.6.1 Locatives -- 12.6.2 Extension concepts -- Chapter 13. Clause types and constituents -- 13.1 Modifiers of the core sentence -- 13.1.1 Locative complements -- 13.1.2 Benefactive adjuncts -- 13.1.3 Temporal adjuncts -- 13.1.4 Instrumental adjuncts -- 13.1.5 Manner adjuncts and expressives -- 13.1.6 Comitative adjuncts -- 13.1.7 Iterative adjuncts -- 13.1.8 Similative adjuncts -- 13.2 Clause linking and dependent clauses -- 13.2.1 Clause chaining -- 13.2.2 Complement clauses -- 13.2.3 Relative clauses -- 13.2.4 Conditional clauses -- 13.3 Clause types -- 13.3.1 Declarative clauses -- 13.3.2 Imperative clauses -- 13.3.3 Interrogative clauses -- 13.4 Cleft constructions and topicalisation -- 13.4.1 Coding new information and disambiguation -- Chapter 14. Questions and negations -- 14.1 Questions -- 14.1.1 Polar questions -- 14.1.2 Information questions -- 14.1.3 Indirect questions -- 14.2 Negation -- 14.2.1 Negation of verb phrases -- 14.2.2 Negation of noun phrases -- 14.2.3 Emphatic negation and indirect negation -- Chapter 15. Discourse, genre and ways of speaking -- 15.1 Access rituals, politeness and social marking -- 15.1.1 Access rituals -- 15.2.1 Gendered speech -- 15.2 Conflict and concealment -- 15.3 Ritualised speech types -- 15.3.1 Riddles and jokes -- 15.3.2 Prayers and invocations -- 15.4 Literary genres -- Chapter 16. Multilingualism and language ideology -- 16.1 Multilingualism -- 16.1.1 Inclusion of strangers -- 16.1.2 Linguistic biographies -- 16.2 Prestige and language attitudes -- 16.3 Language ideology -- References -- Index.
Summary: This book is a description of Luwo, a Western Nilotic language of South Sudan. Luwo is used by multilingual, dynamic communities of practice as one language among others that form individual and flexible repertoires. It is a language that serves as a means of expressing the Self, as a medium of art and self-actualization, and sometimes as a medium of writing. It is spoken in the home and in public spaces, by fairly large numbers of people who identify themselves as Luwo and as members of all kinds of other groups. In order to provide insights into these dynamic and diverse realities of Luwo, this book contains both a concise description and analysis of the linguistic features and structures of Luwo, and an approach to the anthropological linguistics of this language. The latter is presented in the form of separate chapters on possession, number, experiencer constructions, spatial orientation, perception and cognition. In all sections of this study, sociolinguistic information is provided wherever this is useful and possible, detailed information on the semantics of grammatical features and constructions is given, and discussions of theory-oriented approaches to various linguistic features of Luwo are presented.
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A Grammar of Luwo -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Location and linguistic affiliation -- 1.1.1 Historical situation -- 1.2 Research history and documentation -- 1.2.1 Missionary linguistics -- 1.2.2 Linguistic description and comparative studies -- 1.3 Fieldwork -- 1.4 Aims of this study -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- 2.1 Segmental phonology -- 2.1.1 Consonants -- 2.1.2 Vowels -- 2.2 Suprasegmental phonology -- 2.2.1 Tone -- 2.2.2 Stress -- 2.3 Syllable structure -- 2.3.1 Syllable types -- 2.3.2 Syllable weight -- 2.4 Morphophonological processes -- 2.4.1 Morphophonological processes concerning consonants -- 2.4.2 Morphophonological processes concerning vowels -- 2.5 Orthography and graphic representation -- Chapter 3. Word classes and other categories -- 3.1 Morphophonological structures -- 3.1.1 Morphemes -- 3.1.2 Words -- 3.2 Open word classes and categories -- 3.2.1 Nouns -- 3.2.2 Verbs -- 3.2.3 Ideophones -- 3.3 Closed word classes and categories -- 3.3.1 Adjectives -- 3.3.2 Adverbs -- 3.3.3 Smell Words -- 3.3.4 Prepositions -- 3.3.5 Numerals -- 3.3.6 Conjunctions -- 3.3.7 Particles -- 3.3.8 Pronouns -- 3.3.9 Interjections -- Chapter 4. Nouns -- 4.1 Morphophonological subclasses -- 4.1.1 Morphologically unmarked nouns -- 4.1.2 Affixed nouns -- 4.2 Grammatically distinctive semantic sub-groups -- 4.2.1 Animacy -- 4.2.2 Alienabilty -- 4.2.3 Countability -- 4.2.4 Location -- 4.2.5 Generic referents -- 4.2.6 Body parts -- 4.3 Status Inflection -- 4.3.1 Modified singular nouns -- 4.3.2 Modified plural nouns -- 4.4 Derivation -- 4.4.1 Deverbal derivation -- 4.4.1.1 Verbal nouns -- 4.4.1.2 Action nouns -- 4.4.1.3 Abstract nouns -- 4.4.1.4 Nouns indicating physical properties -- 4.4.1.5 Agent nouns -- 4.4.1.6 Instrumental nouns -- 4.4.1.7 Locative nouns -- 4.4.2. Denominal derivation.

4.4.2.1 Proper names -- 4.4.2.2 Livestock terms -- 4.4.2.3 Ethnonyms -- 4.4.2.4 Fruit names -- 4.4.2.5 Diminutives -- 4.5 Culturally specified nouns -- 4.5.1 Names and naming -- 4.5.2 Toponyms and clan names -- 4.5.3 Kinship terminology -- 4.5.4 Mythological terms -- Chapter 5. Noun classifiers -- 5.1 Classifiers in Western Nilotic: An overview -- 5.2 Zero-suffixing -- 5.2.1 Simplex nouns -- 5.2.2 Suffixless nouns -- 5.3 Singular suffixes -- 5.3.1 Singulative concepts -- 5.3.2 Animate referents with -ɔ -- 5.3.3 Foreign and movable referents with -a -- 5.3.4 Animate referents with -u -- 5.3.5 Animals and body parts with *-k -- 5.4 Plural Suffixes -- 5.4.1 Plurals with -ɛ́ -- 5.4.2 Plurals with -V[- FRONT, + BREATHY]-ɛ -- 5.4.3 Plurals with -VNɛ́ -- 5.4.4 Plurals with ‑kʌ̀ -- 5.4.5 Plurals with -ɪ̀ -- 5.4.6 Plurals with -th -- 5.5 Noun categorisation devices and their meanings: An overview -- Chapter 6. Number -- 6.1 Number marking on nouns -- 6.1.1 Historical context -- 6.1.2 Tripartite number-marking -- 6.2 Number marking on state verbs and adjectives -- 6.2.1 Pluractional verbs -- 6.2.2 Number-sensitive adjectives -- 6.3 Quantifiers and numerals -- 6.3.1 Quantifiers -- 6.3.2 Numerals -- 6.3.3 Nominal aspect -- Chapter 7. Verbs -- 7.1 Verb roots -- 7.2 Verb stems -- 7.2.1 Transitivity -- 7.2.1.1 Argument inflection and participants -- 7.2.2 Stem formation and derivation -- 7.2.2.1 Antipassive -- 7.2.2.2 Impersonal-passive -- 7.2.2.3 Anticausative -- 7.2.2.4 Instrumental -- 7.2.2.5 Benefactive -- 7.2.2.6 Causative -- 7.2.2.7 Itive-Altrilocal -- 7.2.2.8 Ventive -- 7.2.2.9 Frequentative-Intensive -- 7.3 Verbal inflection -- 7.3.1 Person and pronominal inflection -- 7.3.1.1 Pronominal prefix -- 7.3.1.2 Pronominal suffix -- 7.3.1.3 Object marking -- 7.3.2 Aspect -- 7.3.2.1 Perfective -- 7.3.2.2 Perfective II -- 7.3.2.3 Perfective-durative.

7.3.2.4 Perfective-habitual -- 7.3.2.5 Perfective-progressive -- 7.3.2.6 Perfective-future -- 7.3.2.7 Imperfective -- 7.3.2.8 Imperfective-durative -- 7.3.2.9 Imperfective-habitual -- 7.3.2.10 Imperfective-progressive -- 7.3.2.11 Imperfective-future -- 7.3.3 Mood -- 7.3.3.1 Imperative -- 7.3.3.2 Subjunctive -- 7.4 Light verbs and multiverb constructions -- Chapter 8. Person and experience -- 8.1 Personal pronouns -- 8.1.1 Subject pronouns, logophoricity and focus -- 8.1.2 Suffixed personal pronouns -- 8.1.3 Object pronouns -- 8.2 Experiencer pronouns and coding emotion -- 8.3 Comparative and superlative -- 8.4 Indefinites -- Chapter 9. Perception and cognition -- 9.1 Truth as state or event -- 9.2 Perception verbs -- 9.2.1 Knowing and understanding -- 9.2.2 Sensory perception -- 9.2.3 'Recognise' as search and action -- 9.3 Anticausative and ambitransitive constructions -- 9.3.1 Smell and taste terms -- 9.4 The transmission of knowledge -- 9.5 Some conclusions -- Chapter 10. Possession and association -- 10.1 Nominal possession -- 10.1.1 Possessive pronouns -- 10.1.1.1 Multi-functionality of possessive pronouns -- 10.1.2 Compounding -- 10.1.2.1 Juxtaposition -- 10.1.2.2 Associative -- 10.1.3 Alienability -- 10.2 Predicative possession -- Chapter 11. Word order, case and pragmatics -- 11.1 Overview -- 11.2 Ergative case in Western Nilotic -- 11.3 Establishment of ergativity -- 11.3.1 Transitive clauses -- 11.3.2 Intransitive clauses -- 11.3.3 Cross-reference -- 11.4 Split-ergative patterns -- 11.4.1 Verb-initial clauses -- 11.4.2 Functionally marked NP-initial clauses -- 11.4.3 Animacy constraints -- 11.5 Indefinite marking -- 11.6 Foregrounding and participant marking -- 11.6.1 Foregrounding functions -- 11.7 Summary -- Chapter 12. Location and spatial orientation -- 12.1 Overview -- 12.2 Demonstratives -- 12.2.1 Exophoric demonstratives.

12.2.2 Spatial deictics -- 12.3 Location -- 12.3.1 Prepositions -- 12.3.2 Localising adpositions -- 12.4 Cardinal directions and spatial orientation -- 12.5 Motion -- 12.5.1 Motion verbs -- 12.6 Space -- 12.6.1 Locatives -- 12.6.2 Extension concepts -- Chapter 13. Clause types and constituents -- 13.1 Modifiers of the core sentence -- 13.1.1 Locative complements -- 13.1.2 Benefactive adjuncts -- 13.1.3 Temporal adjuncts -- 13.1.4 Instrumental adjuncts -- 13.1.5 Manner adjuncts and expressives -- 13.1.6 Comitative adjuncts -- 13.1.7 Iterative adjuncts -- 13.1.8 Similative adjuncts -- 13.2 Clause linking and dependent clauses -- 13.2.1 Clause chaining -- 13.2.2 Complement clauses -- 13.2.3 Relative clauses -- 13.2.4 Conditional clauses -- 13.3 Clause types -- 13.3.1 Declarative clauses -- 13.3.2 Imperative clauses -- 13.3.3 Interrogative clauses -- 13.4 Cleft constructions and topicalisation -- 13.4.1 Coding new information and disambiguation -- Chapter 14. Questions and negations -- 14.1 Questions -- 14.1.1 Polar questions -- 14.1.2 Information questions -- 14.1.3 Indirect questions -- 14.2 Negation -- 14.2.1 Negation of verb phrases -- 14.2.2 Negation of noun phrases -- 14.2.3 Emphatic negation and indirect negation -- Chapter 15. Discourse, genre and ways of speaking -- 15.1 Access rituals, politeness and social marking -- 15.1.1 Access rituals -- 15.2.1 Gendered speech -- 15.2 Conflict and concealment -- 15.3 Ritualised speech types -- 15.3.1 Riddles and jokes -- 15.3.2 Prayers and invocations -- 15.4 Literary genres -- Chapter 16. Multilingualism and language ideology -- 16.1 Multilingualism -- 16.1.1 Inclusion of strangers -- 16.1.2 Linguistic biographies -- 16.2 Prestige and language attitudes -- 16.3 Language ideology -- References -- Index.

This book is a description of Luwo, a Western Nilotic language of South Sudan. Luwo is used by multilingual, dynamic communities of practice as one language among others that form individual and flexible repertoires. It is a language that serves as a means of expressing the Self, as a medium of art and self-actualization, and sometimes as a medium of writing. It is spoken in the home and in public spaces, by fairly large numbers of people who identify themselves as Luwo and as members of all kinds of other groups. In order to provide insights into these dynamic and diverse realities of Luwo, this book contains both a concise description and analysis of the linguistic features and structures of Luwo, and an approach to the anthropological linguistics of this language. The latter is presented in the form of separate chapters on possession, number, experiencer constructions, spatial orientation, perception and cognition. In all sections of this study, sociolinguistic information is provided wherever this is useful and possible, detailed information on the semantics of grammatical features and constructions is given, and discussions of theory-oriented approaches to various linguistic features of Luwo are presented.

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