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Typological Features Template for Logba

by Francisca Adzo Adjei

Feature Description
Phonological Features In the following fields you describe the phonological inventory of Logba
Vowel inventory ɔ ɛ a o u i e
Vowel harmony + ATR o u i e -ATR ɔ ɛ a
Consonant inventory In this field you describe the consonants of [Logba]
Tone H L LH HL
Syllable Structure CV C CCV
Morpho-syntactic Features SVO
morphological classification (1) Agglutinative according to these parameters if possible.
morphological classification (2) Head marking language
Nominal Phrases In the following fields follows a description of some of the basic morpho-syntactic properties of nominal constituents
syntactic structure N Adj Det Int.
nominal modification In this field you indicate the basic types of nominal modification (adjectives, relative clauses, adpositions...)
nominal specification In this field you indicate the basic types of specification. Does [your language] have determiners, demonstratives (deixis), numerals, quantifiers. Are there affixes expressing reference, deixis.
possession In this field you describe how possession is expressed (for example, syntactically or by use of prepositions, through juxtaposition or morphologically) Does [your language] feature possessive pronouns?
pronominal system In this field you indicate if [your language] has free pronoun forms? Are pronouns marked for their grammatical function (object versus subject pronouns)? Does your language have bound pronouns (affixes) or pronoun doubling? Are reflexives expressed by pronouns?
Verbal Phrases In the following fields serve for the description of some of the basic morpho-syntactic properties of verbal constituents
word order ( SVO)
TAM In this field you indicate which tense and/or aspects are morphologically or tonally marked; does [your language] make use of periphrastic tense or aspect constructions?
infinitival forms In this field you indicate if [Logba] makes use of an infinitive marker? How many infinitival forms does your language have?
verbal constructions In this field you indicate if [Logba] has ditransitive constructions, serial verb constructions or complex verb forms composed of several verbs. Does your language have so called light verbs, perhaps only used to indicate a certain tense or aspect?
Adpositions In this field you indicate if [your language[ makes use of prepositions or postpositions. Does your language have spatial nouns? Does your language use adpositions or particles to indicate grammatical relations between the verb and a nominal argument?
Complementation In this field you describe complementation strategies. Does [Logba] make use of complementizers?
Special Properties of [Logba] In this field you should mention properties of [your language] which did not fit into any of the other categories mentioned in this template