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|morphological classification (1)
 
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|syntactic structure
 
|syntactic structure
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|nominal modification
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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

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.”
Iri
iri
get_up
V
gaa
gaa
go
V2
gaŋ
gaŋ
sleep
V3
Adpositions
Complementation
Special Properties of [your language]
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