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A Grammar of Mina is a reference grammar of a hitherto undescribed and endangered Central Chadic language. The book contains a description of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and all the functional domains encoded by this language. For each hypothesis regarding a form of linguistic expression and its function, ample evidence is given. The description of formal means and of the functions coded by these means is couched in terms accessible to all linguists regardless of their theoretical orientations. Because of these unusual linguistic characteristics, the Grammar of Mina will be of interest to a wide range of linguists.
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Zygmunt Frajzyngier is Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
Eric Johnston is affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
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"This reference grammar is packed with interesting facts and one would recommend it for students of Chadic languages and for typologists and general linguists alike."
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- PublisherDe Gruyter Mouton
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 3110185652
- ISBN 13 9783110185652
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- Edition number1
- Number of pages509
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