Welmers Wm E. African Language Structures

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Pages: 499
Publisher: University of Califoia Press (1973)
Quality: good: scanned book

Contents
1. The Historical and Classificatory Setting
2. Vowel Systems
3. Consonant Systems
4. Tonal Systems
5. Functions of Tone
6. Noun Class and Concord Systems: An Introduction
7. Functional and Vestigial Noun Class Systems
8. Nonclass Noun Systems
9. Adjectives and Un-adjectives
10. Other Noun Modifiers; Conjunction
11. Being, Having and Verbs
12. Verbal Constructions in Niger-Congo
13. Verbal Systems
14. Questions, Relatives and Subordination
15. Adverbials, Ideophones, Semantic Ranges

ISBN: 0-520-02210-6

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