Difference between revisions of "Typological Features Template for Southern Dagaare"
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Revision as of 21:22, 23 November 2009
Mark Ali, University of Education, Winneba
Feature | Description | ||||||||||||
Phonological Features | |||||||||||||
Vowel inventory | a e i o u ɛ ɔ | ||||||||||||
Vowel harmony | Dagaare has advanced(/a/,/e/,/i/,/o/,/u/)and un-advanced (/a/,/υ/,/ι/,/ɔ/,/ɛ/) tongue root vowels.Only one group can occur within a simple word environment.e.g bie (child), tuo (bitter); pυɔ (stomach), tιε (tree). | ||||||||||||
Consonant inventory | b d f g gb gy h k kp ky l m n ŋ ŋm ny p r s t v w y z
Some people mark additional consonantal sounds. | ||||||||||||
Tone
The basic tone structures of Dagaare is L H and M. Although there appear to be a downstep no elaborate study has confirmed this. |
Tone has both lexical and grammatical marking on words. eg:i.tú V(to dig)ii.tù V(to follow), iii. tù V(to narrate); i.má PARTC(well),ii.mà V(to stick) iii.mǎ N(mother)and i. báá N(dog) ii.bàà V(to grow), bàá N(pond/stream). | ||||||||||||
Syllable Structure
Dagaare has the following syllable structures: CV; CVV,CVVV,CVC, CVCV, VC, VVCV |
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Morpho-syntactic Features | |||||||||||||
morphological classification (1) | |||||||||||||
morphological classification (2) | head independant marking as in doolee, doo (man), lee (small) = boy | ||||||||||||
Nominal Phrases | |||||||||||||
syntactic structure | |||||||||||||
nominal modification | |||||||||||||
nominal specification | |||||||||||||
possession | |||||||||||||
pronominal system | |||||||||||||
Verbal Phrases | |||||||||||||
word order | The following sentence illustrates the basic word order which is SVO | ||||||||||||
TAM | |||||||||||||
infinitival forms | |||||||||||||
verbal constructions | There are serial verb constructions in Dagaare.
Iri gaa gaŋ.
“Get up and go to sleep.”
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Adpositions | |||||||||||||
Complementation | |||||||||||||
Special Properties of [your language] |