A Grammar of Fa d’Ambô

Tjerk Hagemeijer; Philippe Maurer-Cecchini; Armando Zamora Segorbe

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2020

A Grammar of Fa d’Ambô

Tjerk Hagemeijer , Philippe Maurer-Cecchini and Armando Zamora Segorbe

Volume 81 in the series Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110766264

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About this book

Previous Fa d’Ambô grammars are all written in Spanish, either in the spirit of Latin grammar models (Vila 1891, Barrena 1957) or in the tradition of Romance philology (Zamora Segorbe 2010). A Grammar of Fa d’Ambô aims to overcome the shortcomings of these grammars by providing a comprehensive description of the language from a creolistic, typological, and general linguistics perspective.

The grammar covers all major domains of grammar and the different types of interactions between them. The book further includes transcribed texts (about 12,000 words), a Fa d’Ambô-English word list (about 1,140 entries) and supplementary audio materials corresponding to the transcribed texts and spectrograms.

Being the first comprehensive Fa d’Ambô grammar written in English, the book aims at a wide readership of scholars who are interested in creoles, language typology, and language documentation in general, but also targets a specialized readership in Portuguese-related creoles. The grammar is further expected to make a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relation between Fa d’Ambô and its better-known sister languages Santome, Angolar, and Lung’Ie (Principense), spoken on the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.

The supplementary audio materials downloadable below were selected from: Hagemeijer, Tjerk; Agostinho, Ana Lívia; Christofoletti, Alfredo; Généreux, Michel; Hendrickx, Iris; Mendes, Amália; Zamora, Armando. 2014.　Fa d'Ambô corpus. Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL).

Author / Editor information

T. Hagemeijer, University of Lisbon; Ph. Maurer-Cecchini, University of Zurich; A. Zamora Segorbe, Real Academia Española.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XII
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Phonology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
3 Morphological processes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
4 The noun phrase Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
5 The verb phrase Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
6 Simple sentences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
7 Complex sentences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
8 Ideophones and onomatopoeia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
9 Texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
10 Fa d’Ambô – English word list Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
11 English – Fa d’Ambô word list Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Appendix: Story in the four Gulf of Guinea creoles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Creolists, Linguistic Typologists, Romance Philologists, Linguists in General
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 349
Keywords: Portuguese-related Creoles; Gulf of Guinea Creoles

eBook

Published: October 12, 2020
ISBN: 9783110766264

Hardcover

Published: October 12, 2020
ISBN: 9783110438024