[BOOK][B] A grammar of Jamsay

J Heath - 2008 - degruyter.com
J Heath
2008degruyter.com
696 Texts [dç $ ƒç&-m ma $ ta $ ra@][[ko@ a $-tE^ m] le $],[Dogon-Pl Poss coll.
hunt][[NonhP custom] with] ta $ ra@ yç&:-ji $ n ka@ r< a@-ba $? coll. hunt how? do. Impf-
3PlS 'Today we want you-Sg to speak about the collective hunt; the Dogons' collective hunt,
with its customs; how do they do a collective hunt?'[verb te@ ge@'speak'and its cognate
nominal te $ gu@ with an adverbial complement, hence 'talk [the talk [on X]]'='talk about
X';'want X to VP'construction with subject switch § 17.4. 5](1201) B: ja@: ti $, ja@: ti …
696 Texts [dç $ ƒç&-m ma $ ta $ ra@][[ko@ a $-tE^ m] le $],[Dogon-Pl Poss coll. hunt][[NonhP custom] with] ta $ ra@ yç&:-ji $ n ka@ r< a@-ba $? coll. hunt how? do. Impf-3PlS ‘Today we want you-Sg to speak about the collective hunt; the Dogons’ collective hunt, with its customs; how do they do a collective hunt?’[verb te@ ge@‘speak’and its cognate nominal te $ gu@ with an adverbial complement, hence ‘talk [the talk [on X]]’=‘talk about X’;‘want X to VP’construction with subject switch § 17.4. 5](1201) B: ja@: ti $, ja@: ti $, indeed, indeed, ta $ ra@ di $:< be $ ka@ r< a^:-Ø de $ y, coll. hunt manner. L 3PlS. L do. Impf-Ppl. Nonh if, ta $ ra@[da $ na $ pç $ rbç@] y $, coll. hunt [hunt (noun). L common (adj)] it. is, ta $ ra@[mç@: n ma $ da $ na@] y $< kwa $ coll. hunt [gathering Poss hunt (noun)] it. is Emph ‘Indeed, indeed, if (it’s) they way they do the collective hunt; the collective hunt is a hunt done in common; the collective hunt is a hunt of (= by) the group.’
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