A Grammar of Fongbe

This book is a reference grammar of Fongbe, a language which is part of the Gbe dialect cluster. It is spoken mainly in the former kingdom of Dahomey, which today comprises the southern areas of Benin and Togo. This book has three objectives: First, its main purpose is to provide a thorough description of the grammar of Fongbe. Second, this book provides language-specific syntactic tests which were developed in the course of this research. Finally, we provide the reader with the most exhaustive list possible of references on Fongbe, and on the Gbe languages in general. This book thus attempts to represent a "state of the art" of the language itself, and of the analyses proposed to account for its particular constructions. This book is of particular interest to Africanists, scholars interested in comparative linguistics or in the reconstruction of language families, and creolists who work on the languages spoken in the Caribbean area.

Preface
List of tables
Introduction	p. 1
Overview of the phonology	p. 15
Functional categories
Functional categories involved in the nominal structure	p. 37
Pronominal forms	p. 61
Tense, mood and aspect	p. 85
Functional categories involved in the structure of the clause	p. 113
Clause structures	p. 143
Lexical categories
Morphology	p. 183
Compounds	p. 221
Verbs	p. 235
Prepositions and postpositions	p. 299
Modifiers	p. 347
The major syntactic constructions of the language
Serial verbs	p. 399
The double object construction	p. 445
The definite determiner in simple clauses	p. 481
The so-called verb-doubling phenomena	p. 503
Swadesh list	p. 533
App. II: Text	p. 539
Additional data on [actual symbol not reproducible] introducing complements of verbs of the SAY-class	p. 543
A sample of idiomatic verbal expressions	p. 547
References	p. 549
Indexe of authors	p. 573
Indexe of subjects	p. 577
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