Typological Features Template for Southern Dagaare
Mark Ali, University of Education, Winneba
| Feature | Description | ||||||||||||
| Phonological Features | In the following fields you describe the phonological inventory o [your language] | ||||||||||||
| Vowel inventory | a e i o u ɛ ɔ | ||||||||||||
| Vowel harmony | Yes | ||||||||||||
| 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 consonants. | ||||||||||||
| Tone | L H, lexcial and grammatical | ||||||||||||
| Syllable Structure | In this field you indicate the basic syllable structures of [your language]. | ||||||||||||
| Morpho-syntactic Features | In the following fields you describe some of the basic morpho-syntactic parameters of [your language] | ||||||||||||
| morphological classification (1) | [Your language] could be an isolating language (not (or nearly not) making use of morphology, agglutinative, such as the Bantu languages of Africa, or synthetic, such as the Saami languages of Scandinavia, or even polysynthetic such as Greenlandic. In this field you classify [your language] according to these parameters if possible. | ||||||||||||
| morphological classification (2) | head independant marking as in doolee, doo (man), lee (small) = boy | ||||||||||||
| Nominal Phrases | In the following fields follows a description of some of the basic morpho-syntactic properties of nominal constituents | ||||||||||||
| syntactic structure | In this field you describe the linear order of elements in the noun phrase | ||||||||||||
| 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. Are there nouns or other elements expression a portion of a noun that the co-occur with? | ||||||||||||
| 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 | The following sentence illustrates the basic word order which is 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 [your language] makes use of an infinitive marker? How many infinitival forms does your language have? | ||||||||||||
| verbal constructions | There are serial verb constructions in Dagaare.
Iri gaa gaŋ.
“Get up and go to sleep.”
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| 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 [your language] make use of complementizers? | ||||||||||||
| Special Properties of [your language] | In this field you should mention properties of [your language] which did not fit into any of the other categories mentioned in this template |