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Pular-Fulfulde

D. W. Arnott.
The Nominal and Verbal Systems of Fula

Oxford University Press. 1970. 427 p.

Contents

List of Tables
List of Appendices
Symbols and Abbreviations

Part I. — General Introduction

Part II. — Grammatical Introduction

  1. Syntactic categories and form-classes
  2. Outline of the nominal system
  3. Outline of the verbal system
  4. Verbo-nominals
  5. Nominal and adverbial groups
  6. Sentence structure

Part III. — Outline of Phonological Features

  1. The consonant system
  2. The vowel system
  3. Sentence intonation patterns
  4. Final glottality

Part IV. — The Nominal System

  1. The class system-general outline
  2. Meanings associated with the various classes — some generalizations

Full nominals

  1. Full nominals — general
  2. Nouns and adjectives-range of classes
  3. The singular/plural and other relationships
  4. Suffix grades
  5. Initial-consonant alternation
  6. Other features of nominal stems
  7. Stems combining with suffixes of different grades
  8. Suffix variations

Other nominals

  1. Nominals other than full nominals — general
  2. Specifiers
  3. Noun substitutes
  4. Nominal elements
  5. The ɗum series of pronominal forms
  6. Numerals

Part V. — The verbal system

  1. Introduction
  2. The tense system — general
  3. The categories of subject and object elements
  4. The categories of verbal radicals

Minimal complexes

  1. The arrangement of the components
  2. The subject elements
  3. The tense suffixes of minimal complexes
  4. The radical

Enlarged complexes

  1. Enlarged complexes — general
  2. 1-object and 2-object complexes
  3. Preterite complexes
  4. The tense suffixes of enlarged complexes

Other features of verbal complexes

  1. Intonation pattern
  2. Final glottality

Further grammatical jeatures of the verbal system

  1. Summary of the characteristics of individual tenses
  2. Anomalous verbal forms
  3. Imperative forms
  4. Voice

The uses of the tenses

  1. The factors involved
  2. The General Past
  3. The Emphatic Past
  4. The General Future
  5. The Vague Future
  6. The Desiderative
  7. The Stative and Continuous tenses
  8. The Negative tenses
  9. The Subjunctive
  10. The Relative tenses
  11. Tense sequences in serial sentences

Radical extensions

  1. Radical extensions-general
  2. The individual extensions
  3. Extensions in combination

Part VI. — Verbo-nominals

  1. Verbo-nominals — morphology and syntax

Appendices
Bibliography