A Grammar of Buem: The Lelemi Language.

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description This grammar of the Lalami dialect of Buam is the first attempt to describe the morphology and syntax of any of the 14 Togo-Remnant languages in detail; in it, I have tried to describe the major structures and many of the minor structures of the languageswhich occur in informal or semi-formal speech. The phonetics and most of the phonology are described in taxonomic terms; the vowel harmony system and the syntax and morphology, however, are described in a slightly modified "Aspects" model of transformational-generative grammar. Of special interest to the non-specialist are my discussions of vowel harmony, of the noun class system, and of the verbal aspect system and serial verb constructions.
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author Allan, Edward Jay
author_facet Allan, Edward Jay
authorStr Allan, Edward Jay
author_letter Allan, Edward Jay
title A Grammar of Buem: The Lelemi Language.
publishDate 1973
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33569/

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