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ASPECTS OF BANGIME PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND MORPHOSYNTAX

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dc.contributor Botne, Robert
dc.creator Hantgan, Abbie
dc.date 2014-06-16T20:58:53Z
dc.date 2014-06-16T20:58:53Z
dc.date 2013-07
dc.date 2013
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-21T11:18:54Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-21T11:18:54Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2022/18024
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/252956
dc.description Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Linguistics, 2013
dc.description This dissertation provides a description of aspects of the phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax of Bangime. Bangime is a language isolate spoken in the Dogon language speaking area of Central Eastern Mali. Although the Bangande, the speakers of Bangime, self-identify with the Dogon, their language bears practically no resemblance to the surrounding Dogon languages. Bangime has limited productive morphological processes whereas Dogon languages are agglutinating, with productive morphemes to indicate inflectional and derivational verbal and nominal processes. Bangime has a complex tonal system. General tendencies of the tonal patterns are described, with the many exceptions which frequently occur also outlined. Nominal tonal melodies are apparent in plural forms. Objects in verb phrases receive tonal agreement with tones on the verb in accordance with the subject of the sentence. The tense, aspect, and mood system of the language is also complicated. Inflectional marking on the verb, auxiliaries, and the word order of the sentence all contribute to the indication of the tense, aspect or mood of the sentence. An overview of these multifaceted phonological and morphological processes is provided in this dissertation with hypotheses as to how the language may have evolved.
dc.language en
dc.publisher [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University
dc.rights Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Field work
dc.subject Language Isolate
dc.subject Morphology
dc.subject morphosyntax
dc.subject Phonology
dc.subject Tone
dc.subject Linguistics
dc.subject African studies
dc.subject Language
dc.title ASPECTS OF BANGIME PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND MORPHOSYNTAX
dc.type Doctoral Dissertation


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