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A Grammar of Lopit : (Record no. 46119)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2020028831
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789004430679
Qualifying information (electronic book)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789004430662
Qualifying information (print)
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Standard number or code 10.1163/9789004430679
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Original cataloging agency NL-LeKB
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Classification number PL8459.L641
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Subject category code CBG
Source bicssc
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Subject category code REF
Subject category code subdivision 008000
Source bisacsh
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Subject category code LAN
Subject category code subdivision 021000
Source bisacsh
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 496.5522
Edition information 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Moodie, Jonathan,
Relator term author.
245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A Grammar of Lopit :
Remainder of title An Eastern Nilotic Language of South Sudan /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Jonathan Moodie, Rosey Billington.
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title An Eastern Nilotic Language of South Sudan
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Leiden;
-- Boston :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer BRILL,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2021.
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Carrier type term online resource
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490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages ;
Volume/sequential designation 11
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004400689
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 The Lopit People -- 1.3 The Lopit Language -- 1.4 Approaches to Documenting Lopit -- 2 Phonology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Consonants -- 2.3 Vowels -- 2.4 Tone -- 2.5 Phonotactics -- 2.6 Orthography -- 3 Word Classes -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Open Word Classes -- 3.3 Other Word Classes -- 4 The Noun Phrase -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Gender -- 4.3 Number -- 4.4 Case Inflections Marked on the Noun Phrase -- 4.5 Verbal Nominalisation -- 4.6 Nominal Specifiers and Modifiers -- 4.7 Prepositional Phrases -- 4.8 Constituent Order in the Noun Phrase -- 5 The Verb: Overview -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Key Features of the Verb -- 5.3 Subject and Object Marking -- 5.4 Verb Derivational Marking -- 6 Aspect and Modality -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Temporal Reference -- 6.3 Aspect -- 6.4 Modality -- 6.5 Imperatives and Hortatives -- 7 Basic Sentence Structure -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Word Order of the Simple Sentence -- 7.3 Grammatical Relations and Case Systems -- 7.4 Transitivity and Valency -- 7.5 Reflexives and Reciprocals -- 7.6 Predicate Nominals and Related Constructions -- 7.7 Interrogative -- 7.8 Negation -- 8 Property Concepts and Adverbial Notions -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Property Concepts -- 8.3 Adverbial Notions -- 9 Clause Combining Constructions -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Coordinating Clauses -- 9.3 Comitative Coordination and Inclusory Constructions -- 9.4 Complement Clauses and Complementation -- 9.5 Relative Clauses -- 9.6 Adverbial Clauses -- 9.7 Conditional Clauses -- Appendix 1: Swadesh List for Lopit -- Appendix 2: Lopit Narratives -- Appendix 3: Data Citation for Chapter 2 (Phonology) -- References -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In A Grammar of Lopit , Jonathan Moodie and Rosey Billington provide the first detailed description of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language traditionally spoken in the Lopit Mountains in South Sudan. Drawing on extensive primary data, the authors describe the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the Lopit language. Their analyses offer new insights into phenomena characteristic of Nilo-Saharan languages, such as 'Advanced Tongue Root' vowel distinctions, tripartitite number marking, and marked-nominative case systems, and they uncover patterns which are previously unattested within the Eastern Nilotic family, such as a three-way contrast in aspect, number marking with the 'greater singular', and two kinds of inclusory constructions. This book offers a significant contribution to the descriptive and typological literature on African languages.
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Source of description note Description based on print version record.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Lopit language
General subdivision Grammar.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Billington, Rosey,
Relator term author.
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Relationship information Print version:
Title A Grammar of Lopit : An Eastern Nilotic Language of South Sudan,
Place, publisher, and date of publication Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2021
International Standard Book Number 9789004430662
Record control number (DLC) 2020028830
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages ;
Volume/sequential designation 11.
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004400689.
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Public note DOI:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004430679">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004430679</a>

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