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The influence of Ewe, the dominant lingua franca, on the structures in Tafi and the distinctions between Tafi and its closest neighbour Nyagbo are highlighted. A selection of glossed and translated texts__ folktales, proverbs, riddles and procedural genres__is also included. 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</ul> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div></div>  <div class="dc-content" class="column"><div class="section"> <a id="main-content"></a> <div class="tabs"></div> <div class="region region-content"> <section class="dc-webexpositions"> <div id="block-system-main" class="block block-system"> <div class="content"> <div class="islandora-compound-object-object islandora"> <div class="islandora-compound-object-content-wrapper clearfix"> <div class="islandora-compound-object-content"> <img typeof="foaf:Image" src="/islandora/object/item%3A2922601/datastream/TN/view" alt="" title="A grammar of Tafi" /> </div> </div> <section class="dc-metadata islandora islandora-metadata">  <div class="fieldset-wrapper"> <dd class="first author"> <span class="name"> <a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_name_AuthorRole_namePart_custom_ms%3ABobuafor%2C%5C%20M.">Bobuafor, M.</a> </span> <span class="year"> (2013) </span> </dd> <dd class="title"> <h3> A grammar of Tafi </h3> </dd> <dd class="genre"> <a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_genre_authority_local_ms%3ADoctoral%5C%20Thesis">Doctoral Thesis</a> </dd> <dd class="abstract"> <span class="toggle-wrapper"><span>This dissertation is a comprehensive description of Tafi, one of the fourteen Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages, spoken by approximately 4,400 people in the southeastern Ghana. The description consists of thirteen chapters and is based on a corpus gathered during two fieldwork periods totalling fifteen months in the Tafi area.. The language has a nine-vowel system with root controlled Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony and a complex tonology. The noun class and agreement systems display change in progress. This study also accounts for several distinctive features of the language__a small class of underived adjectives; two adpositional classes and their grammaticalization histories, and a rare split possessor system where singular possessors of kin are marked differently from other possessors; utterance particles; conversational routines; interjections, and ideophones. The form, function and meaning of serial verb constructions, split predicate constructions for some modal...<a href='#' class='toggler'>Show more</a></span><span>This dissertation is a comprehensive description of Tafi, one of the fourteen Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages, spoken by approximately 4,400 people in the southeastern Ghana. The description consists of thirteen chapters and is based on a corpus gathered during two fieldwork periods totalling fifteen months in the Tafi area.. The language has a nine-vowel system with root controlled Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony and a complex tonology. The noun class and agreement systems display change in progress. This study also accounts for several distinctive features of the language__a small class of underived adjectives; two adpositional classes and their grammaticalization histories, and a rare split possessor system where singular possessors of kin are marked differently from other possessors; utterance particles; conversational routines; interjections, and ideophones. The form, function and meaning of serial verb constructions, split predicate constructions for some modal-aspectual meanings and a medio-passive construction for predicating properties of undergoers and topic and focus constructions are also covered. The influence of Ewe, the dominant lingua franca, on the structures in Tafi and the distinctions between Tafi and its closest neighbour Nyagbo are highlighted. A selection of glossed and translated texts__ folktales, proverbs, riddles and procedural genres__is also included. The thesis is of interest to Africanists, typologists and contact linguists.<a href='#' class='toggler'>Show less</a></span></span> </dd> <dd class="topics"> <div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3ANoun%5C%20classes">Noun classes</a></div><div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3AIdeophones">Ideophones</a></div><div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3AUtterance%5C%20particles">Utterance particles</a></div><div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3AConversational%5C%20routines">Conversational routines</a></div><div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3AInterjections">Interjections</a></div><div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3ASplit%5C%20predicate%5C%20constructions">Split predicate constructions</a></div><div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3ASerial%5C%20verb%5C%20constructions">Serial verb constructions</a></div><div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3AFrame%5C%20topics">Frame topics</a></div><div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3AAdpositions">Adpositions</a></div><div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3ALocative%5C%20predicates">Locative predicates</a></div><div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3ASubject%5C%20agreement">Subject agreement</a></div><div class="tag"><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3AATR%5C%20vowel%5C%20harmony">ATR vowel harmony</a></div> </dd> <dl title="All authors" class="mods_name_AuthorRole_namePart_custom_ms"> <dt>All authors</dt> <dd><a href="/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_name_AuthorRole_namePart_custom_ms%3ABobuafor%2C%5C%20M.">Bobuafor, M.</a></dd> </dl> <dl title="Supervisor" class="mods_name_DegreesupervisorRole_namePart_custom_ms"> <dt>Supervisor</dt> <dd>Mous, M.P.G.M.</dd> </dl> <dl title="Co-supervisor" class="mods_name_ThesisadvisorRole_namePart_custom_ms"> <dt>Co-supervisor</dt> <dd>Ameka, F.K.</dd> </dl> <dl title="Qualification" class="mods_genre_authority_local_s"> <dt>Qualification</dt> <dd>Doctor (dr.)</dd> </dl> <dl title="Awarding Institution" class="mods_genre_authority_local_s"> <dt>Awarding Institution</dt> <dd> Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University </dd> </dl> <dl title="Date" class="mods_originInfo_encoding_w3cdtf_keyDate_yes_dateIssued_ms"> <dt>Date</dt> <dd>2013-05-30</dd> </dl> <dl title="Publisher" class="mods_originInfo_place_placeTerm_text_ms mods_originInfo_publisher_ms"> <dt>Publisher</dt> <dd> LOT : Utrecht </dd> </dl> <dl title="ISBN" class="mods_identifier_isbn_ms"> <dt>ISBN (print)</dt> <dd> 9789460931130 </dd> </dl> <H4>Funding</H4> <dl title="Sponsorship" class="mods_note_sponsorship_ms"> <dt>Sponsorship</dt> <dd>NWO-GW en WOTRO Endangered Languages Programme</dd> </dl> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div></div>  </div>  </main>  <footer id="thefooter"><div class="dc-centercontent"> <div class="region region-footer"> <section class=""> <div id="block-block-3" class="block block-block"> <div class="content"> <p>©2020-2024 Leiden University<br /> A service provided by <a target="”_blank”" href="https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/">Leiden University Libraries</a></p> </div> </div> </section><section class=""> <div id="block-menu-menu-footer-menu" class="block block-menu"> <div class="content"> <ul class="menu"><li class="first leaf"><a href="https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/about-us/contact" class="first leaf" target="_blank">Contact</a></li><li class="leaf"><a href="/about" class="leaf">About us</a></li><li class="leaf"><a href="/added-last-2-weeks" class="leaf">Recently Added</a></li><li class="leaf"><a href="https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/" class="leaf" target="_blank">Digital Collections</a></li><li class="last leaf"><a href="https://studenttheses.universiteitleiden.nl/" class="last leaf" target="_blank">Student Repository</a></li></ul> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div></footer>  </div></div>  </body> </html>

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