A dictionary and grammatical outline of Chakali

This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chakali, a Southwestern Grusi language spoken by less than 3500 people in northwest Ghana. The dictionary offers a consistent description of word meaning and provides the basis for future research in the linguistic area. It is also designed...

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Huvudskapare: Brindle, Jonathan (auth)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Language Science Press 2017
Serie:African Language Grammars and Dictionaries
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Sammanfattning:This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chakali, a Southwestern Grusi language spoken by less than 3500 people in northwest Ghana. The dictionary offers a consistent description of word meaning and provides the basis for future research in the linguistic area. It is also designed to provide an inventory of correspondence with English usage in a reversal index. The concepts used in the dictionary are explained in a grammar outline, which is of interest to specialists in Gur and Grusi linguistics, as well as any language researchers working in this part of the world.
Fysisk beskrivning:1 electronic resource (491 p.)
ISBN:zenodo.344813
9783944675923;9783946234937
Tillgång:Open Access