Jamsay Grammar

This is a substantial but far from final draft. A cursory introduction to the grammar is in chapter 2. The final version will be submitted after my next fieldwork in Mali, which will probably begin in summer 2006. In the final version there will be a sample text, an index, a proper table of contents (the present one does not have actual page numbers), and consecutive numbering of examples. The data are chiefly from Dianwely Kessel, a village near Douentza.

I also have a Jamsay-English-French Dictionary in spreadsheet form. I am working on developing a lexical website for this and other Dogon lexical material. I have transcribed some 3-4 hours of Jamsay text and will be keyboarding and disseminating them in some form in due time.

The project is financed by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Please do not download or print the pdf's. The manuscript will be withdrawn from my website on publication.

00. Contents
01. Intro
02. Sketch
03. Phonology
04. Nominal, Pronominal, Adjectival and Adjectival Morphology
05. Nominal and Adjectival Compounds
06. NP Structure
07. Coordination
08. Coordination
09. Verbal Derivation
10. Verbal Inflection
11. Verb and Predication Types
12. Comparatives
13. Focalization and Interrogatives
14. Relativization
15. Verb Chains and Adverbial Clauses
16. Conditionals
17. Complementation
18. Anaphora
19. Grammatical Pragmatics