dc.contributor.author
Grimm, Nadine
dc.date.accessioned
2023-01-09T15:01:57Z
dc.date.available
2023-01-09T15:01:57Z
dc.identifier.isbn
978-3-98554-007-5
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/37550
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-37264
dc.description.abstract
This grammar offers a grammatical description of the Ngòló variety of Gyeli, an endangered Bantu (A80) language spoken by 4,000-5,000 "Pygmy" hunter-gatherers in southern Cameroon. It represents one of the most comprehensive descriptions of a northwestern Bantu language.
The grammatical description, which is couched in a form-to-function approach, covers all levels of language, ranging from Gyeli phonology to its information structure and complex clauses.
It draws on nineteen months of fieldwork carried out as part of the "Bagyeli/Bakola" DoBeS (Documentation of Endangered Languages) project between 2010 and 2014. The resulting multimodal corpus from that project, which includes texts of diverse genres such as traditional stories, narratives, multi-party conversations and dialogues, procedural texts, and songs, provides the empirical basis for the grammatical description. The documentary text collection, supplemented by data from elicitation work, questionnaires, and experiments, are accessible in the Bagyeli/Bakola collection of The Language Archive. With additional ethnographic, sociolinguistic, diachronic, and comparative remarks, the grammar may appeal to a wider audience in general linguistics, typology, Bantu studies, and anthropology.
In 2019, the grammar received the Pāṇini Award by the Association for Linguistic Typology.
en
dc.format.extent
xv, 701 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
southern Cameroon
en
dc.subject.ddc
400 Sprache::410 Linguistik::410 Linguistik
dc.title
A grammar of Gyeli
dc.identifier.urn
urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-refubium-37550-2
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.5281/zenodo.4737370
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername
Language Science Press
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace
Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/298
refubium.affiliation
Externe Anbieter
refubium.affiliation.other
Language Science Press
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
yes
refubium.series.issueNumber
2
refubium.series.name
Comprehensive Grammar Library
dcterms.accessRights.dnb
free
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dc.identifier.eisbn
978-3-96110-311-9
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2749-7798