The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 2: A Descriptive Grammar

Dedication
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Bafuliiru Forword
A Brief Background to Writing Grammars in Africa by Derek Nurse
Contributing to Language Revitalization and Maintenance by John Watters
Abbreviations
Maps

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Language name and classification
• 1.2 Dialects
• 1.3 Previous language work; contributors to the present work
• 1.4 Inventory of parts of speech
• 1.5 Conventions
• 1.6 Possible mismatches between Kifuliiru and other languages

2. Nouns

• 2.1 Constituent structure of the noun
• 2.2 Class agreement triggered by noun gender-number
• 2.3 Semantic categories typically found in various Kifuliiru noun classes

3. Pronouns and Demonstratives

• 3.1 Previous reference: the morpheme e / o
• 3.2 Verb prefix pronouns and enclitic pronouns
• 3.3 Personal pronouns
• 3.4 Interrogative pronouns
• 3.5 Demonstratives

4. Adjectives, Numbers, and Quantifiers

• 4.1 Adjectives
• 4.2 Quantifiers
• 4.3 Cardinal numbers
• 4.4 Ordinal numbers

5. Adverbs

• 5.1 Temporal adverbs
• 5.2 Positional adverbs
• 5.3 Manner adverbs
• 5.4 Intensifier and limiter adverbs
• 5.5 Confirmatory adverbs
• 5.6 Additive adverbs

6. Ideophones, Interjections, and Greetings

• 6.1 Ideophones
• 6.2 Interjections
• 6.3 Greetings

7. Noun Phrases

• 7.1 Noun phrase structure
• 7.2 Augments
• 7.3 Associative phrases
• 7.4 Associative pronouns
• 7.5 Conjunctives used with noun phrases
• 7.6 Noun phrases involving mwene ‘ownership’
• 7.7 Noun phrases with following nouns of apposition
• 7.8 Multiple noun phrase embedding

8. Locative Phrases

• 8.1 Locative markers
• 8.2 Position nouns

9. Verb Words and Phrases

• 9.1 Overview of verb form types
• 9.2 Detailed inventory of TAM form/meanings

10. Clauses and Information Structure

• 10.1 Syntactic structure of independent clauses
• 10.2 Information structure
• 10.3 Alternations of basic constituent order

11. Dependent Clauses and Interclausal Relations

• 11.1 Dependent adverbial clauses
• 11.2 Analytic causatives
• 11.3 Reduced clauses indicating concomitant “state”
• 11.4 Complement clauses
• 11.5 Relative clauses
• 11.6 Relations between independent clauses
• 11.7 Pauses at the sentence level

12. Narrative Forms

• 12.1 Speech register summary
• 12.2 Narrative text units
• 12.3 Highlighting
• 12.4 Reporting of conversation
• 12.5 Participant reference

13. Proverbs and Riddles

• 13.1 Proverbs
• 13.2 Riddles

14 Reduplication

• 14.1 Reduplication structural considerations
• 14.2 Functions of reduplication

Appendix: Texts
References
Person index
Language index
Overall index