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Author: Joswig, A.
Alphabetical Index
A A (transitive agent).. .15, 49p., 103, 105p., 108, 110pp., 116, 118, 120pp., 126pp., 182, 187, 192, 197, 205, 228, 240, 283pp., 339, 340p., 352p., 355, 359pp., 375, 381, 387, 399, 407p. a-class verb...17, 19, 23p., 27, 81, 209p., 215pp., 227pp., 234p., 245, 246pp., 251, 254p., 257, 262, 264, 266, 269p., 276, 280pp., 435 ablative...182, 320, 358 absolutive...15, 17p., 20, 22pp., 29p., 49, 90p., 97p., 106, 108, 109pp., 114pp., 120, 122, 124p., 128, 130, 133, 136p., 145, 148, 150pp., 159pp., 164pp., 168pp., 182, 184, 185, 186pp., 197, 199, 201, 204pp., 211, 214p., 221, 228p., 240p., 243, 284, 289, 292p., 296, 301, 308, 330, 332p., 335p., 340, 343, 346pp., 355, 361p., 364p., 374p. activated participant.106, 107, 116, 127, 130, 271p., 297, 299, 340, 362p., 366, 372, 374p., 377, 409pp., 413 adjective...274, 275, 282 adposition...317 advanced tongue root...ATR.15, 48, 54, 56, 60pp., 75, 76p., 85, 179, 199
complex verb...26, 62, 85, 92, 93, 233, 255, 263, 270, 435 conditional construction...15, 26, 261, 370p., 398, 400, 401pp. conjoint marking...15, 17, 19pp., 26pp., 49, 96, 98, 102p., 106p., 112, 121, 123, 132, 133pp., 186, 190, 194, 206, 209, 211p., 227pp., 234pp., 238, 241pp., 246p., 249p., 252, 256p., 264pp., 268, 274, 288p., 308pp., 316, 335p., 339, 348pp., 365, 375, 382 conjunction...15, 60, 98, 131p., 141p., 279, 283, 287pp., 291, 301, 303, 306, 308, 310, 321, 322, 323, 325pp., 337, 361, 370p., 388p., 392pp., 399pp., 413p.
229pp., 241, 248, 255, 274, 277, 278p., 353p., 360, 371, 435 determiner...83, 298, 299 detransitivization. 19, 23, 220, 227, 229, 232, 235, 272, 359, 361, 369, 386, 435 dialect...39, 41, 70, 314 differential ergative marking...15,
103p., 112, 113, 122p., 126, 136, 140, 339 differential-S marking…..103, 123, 125, 136, 140, 339 diphthong...77 directional marking...15, 17, 22, 27p., 44, 49, 212, 230, 233, 236p., 255, 260, 262, 263p., 273, 280, 282, 314, 371, 372p., 405 disjoint marking...15, 17, 19pp., 26pp., 49, 61, 96, 98, 102, 106, 132, 133pp., 190, 194, 206, 211p., 227, 229, 235pp., 241pp., 256p., 264pp., 268, 282, 301, 308, 316, 335p., 339, 348, 351pp., 365, 382 distal deixis...15, 26, 292, 295 distant future...15, 306, 310, 311, 366 distinctive feature.. . .74, 75pp., 101 ditransitive clause.197, 267, 355, 356, 362p., 390, 410 downstep....15, 48, 88, 89pp., 96p., 99, 101p., 137, 150, 152p., 161, 163, 165, 214pp., 232, 234, 255, 265, 288, 290, 307, 383 durative....220, 231, 234, 276, 282, 435 E Eastern Sudanic....40, 48, 111, 393 elicitation...29p., 43, 46, 113pp., 125pp., 129, 180, 185, 284 epenthesis.. .15, 78, 79p., 100, 196, 202, 245p., 248p., 286 equi-NP deletion...240, 359 ergative.. 15, 17pp., 25pp., 29p., 43, 50, 97p., 107, 108, 109pp., 122, 124p., 127p., 130, 133, 137, 145, 148, 151pp., 170, 172, 178, 182, 184p., 187, 188pp., 199, 204pp., 215, 227, 284, 292, 296, 299, 301, 303, 332, 334, 340, 352p., 355, 362, 381, 387 ergativity...30, 111, 118, 125, 359 existential construction.105, 282, 348, 379 expectedness...105, 107, 119, 198 ɛ-class verbs -class verb.
finite verb...208pp., 255 floating low tone...46, 48, 88, 89p.,
94pp., 150p., 157, 160p., 175, 192, 194p., 197, 206, 220, 233, 255, 266, 290 fluid-S system...30, 123 focus...121, 134p., 288p., 291, 375pp., 380, 381p., 385 formant...15, 55, 75 fricative consonant....48, 66p., 69p. fronting.49, 128, 130, 242, 340, 341p., 344, 349, 355, 375, 377, 412 future tense...311, 312, 366, 371, 402, 404 G gapping...112, 395 gender...46, 48, 148 glottal stop...59p., 65, 78 grammatical relations...125, 183, 235, 338 grammatical tone. 48, 97, 124, 133, 147p., 151, 169pp., 174, 176, 178, 183pp., 187p., 194p., 197, 199, 214, 216p., 219, 221pp., 236, 243p., 246, 254p., 258p., 262 greeting...323 H habitual...234p. head noun...148, 204, 292, 296, 298p., 329, 330pp., 406p. hearer deixis.15, 20, 48, 267, 292, 294 height harmony...48, 85, 86, 157, 213, 229, 249, 254 hortative particle.. 269pp., 391, 392 hortatory text...44, 115, 393 I i-class verb.19, 22pp., 81, 85, 92p., 209, 213pp., 218, 220p., 228, 235, 245, 249, 250, 254p., 264, 276, 280, 435 imperative.15, 18, 20, 24, 237p., 269, 270p., 316p., 323, 370p., 375, 389, 390, 391 imperfective...15, 49, 81p., 140p., 211, 234, 235, 258, 261, 353p., 365, 369 impersonal.. .15, 20, 46, 58, 60, 96, 105p., 143, 212, 238, 239pp., 280, 282, 286p., 314, 356, 359p., 379 implosive consonant...47, 65pp., 73p., 76, 78, 82p., 102, 221, 229 inalienable noun...203 inceptive...229, 230p., 279, 317 inchoative.15, 25, 230, 252, 259, 260pp., 315p., 367, 369
indirect object.. .131, 197, 355, 390 infinite verb...208, 211, 212 infinitive.. .15, 18, 20p., 23, 25, 27, 44, 58, 102, 165p., 208, 210pp., 213, 214pp., 226p., 276p., 278, 279, 282, 305, 315, 379, 395pp. infinitive predicate...213 inflection...24, 89, 145, 148p., 157, 182, 211p., 214pp., 235, 238, 241, 243, 262, 273, 278, 280, 314, 316, 360, 366p., 371p. inflection class...48, 89, 157, 165, 182, 185, 188, 191, 199, 209, 210, 213, 218, 228, 231, 233p., 238, 243pp., 248, 250pp., 264, 268, 274, 276, 280, 434p. class vowel.17, 165, 213, 232, 238, 254 information packaging...31 instrumental...182, 358 interjection...283, 324 interrogative clause...100 interrogative pronoun.48, 101, 132, 297, 346, 377, 380, 385pp.
negation. 15, 23, 44, 152, 208, 210, 219, 313, 370p., 375, 378, 379, 402pp. negative auxiliary. ….25, 219, 313, 314p., 378p. negative copula...379, 404 negative verb.18, 27, 211p., 219, 220pp., 270, 313, 378p., 403 new information...344, 380, 387, 411 Nilo-Saharan....30, 34, 40, 45, 109, 134, 184, 212, 373 Nilotic languages...38, 359, 373 nominal hierarchy...117p., 120 nominal predicate...108, 343, 344 nominalization.. .15, 25, 27, 44, 90, 146p., 162, 211, 212, 214, 217, 223, 224pp., 278, 304, 379 nominative...15, 17pp., 25pp., 50, 79, 90p., 95, 106pp., 110, 112p., 116pp., 122, 124p., 129p., 133, 137, 139, 145, 151pp., 162, 170, 172, 182, 184p., 188, 192, 193pp., 199, 204pp., 215, 228, 240, 292p., 296, 299, 301, 308, 332, 340p., 347pp., 352p., 355, 361p., 381, 387 non-automatic downstep.88, 89pp., 94, 101 non-central case....74, 160, 168pp., 173p., 178, 183, 196, 197, 202, 295, 298, 356 non-verbal predicate...342 noun phrase..15, 17, 49p., 90, 98p., 104, 107, 111p., 114pp., 125, 127p., 131, 133, 136pp., 143, 145, 148, 182pp., 186, 190, 193p., 198, 200p., 204, 208, 211, 228p., 240p., 243, 256, 272p., 289, 292, 296p., 299pp., 303, 308, 319p., 322, 325pp., 329, 330pp., 335p., 338p., 342pp., 347p., 350pp., 357, 358p., 363, 365, 374pp., 381p., 386, 394, 401, 406p., 409p. number marking.43, 48, 145, 146, 148, 149p., 180, 181pp., 185, 207, 211, 226, 278, 284, 292p., 296, 331, 332, 406 numeral...302 O object.. .16, 46, 105p., 126pp., 131, 136, 223, 235, 240, 262, 267, 271pp., 288, 301, 316, 336, 338, 351, 352, 353pp., 360, 364, 368p., 376p., 381, 390, 396pp., 409pp. object clause...396, 397 Obligatory Contour Principle.16,
185p., 190p., 194, 200, 206, 292p., 296, 297pp., 319, 329pp., 334, 346 possessive verb...281 possessor...48, 50, 201, 203p., 207p., 281, 296, 355, 364 possessor raising...364 postlexical rule...72, 83 postposition...317, 318pp. pragmatic particle.16, 305, 322, 323p., 413 pragmatic pronoun.284, 289, 290p., 305 precative...16, 391, 392 predicate...137, 209, 338, 339, 342pp., 359, 368p., 379, 395p., 405p.
relative past...16, 19pp., 23p., 27, 92, 238, 241, 243, 252, 255p., 264pp., 269, 271pp., 282p., 310, 367, 369, 399, 403, 405, 410 relative pronoun. 20, 22, 26, 48, 62, 183, 292, 295, 321, 330, 399, 406p. relative tense...210pp., 235, 237, 243, 252, 255, 258p. remote past.16, 299p., 306p., 310, 312, 335p., 366 repetitive...235, 261, 262, 369 rhyme...16, 74, 83, 84p., 219, 243 rising tone...86, 87, 99pp., 382 root...58, 61p., 80, 81, 86p., 90, 98, 146, 157, 175p., 212pp., 224, 230pp., 234, 241, 245, 269p., 276, 278, 360, 369 S S (intransitive subject)...16, 30, 49p., 103, 105p., 108, 109p., 112, 116, 118, 120pp., 127p., 130pp., 136pp., 140, 182, 185, 192, 205, 240, 272, 283pp., 339, 340, 344, 354, 362, 375, 377, 407p. sentence boundary.. .106, 121, 134, 141, 143, 195, 198, 201, 204, 286, 307, 350, 379, 394 sentence tone...99, 100p., 375, 382pp.
tense marker...50, 92, 137p., 252, 256, 288, 290, 299, 306, 307pp., 321, 334pp., 366, 367, 401p., 404 text corpus.. .29, 43, 44, 46, 61, 66, 87, 240, 282, 284, 310, 312, 321, 324, 364p., 408 tone association...87 tone melody...86, 87 tone pattern.. 29, 44, 175, 197, 246, 281, 319 tone replacement.102, 169pp., 174, 176, 214, 216, 219, 221, 246, 255, 258p., 262 tone spreading...94, 95, 161, 163, 167 tone system...29, 44, 86 toneless morpheme.17, 48, 90, 92, 93, 94pp., 101, 155pp., 160pp., 165, 168pp., 177, 197, 213, 215p., 219p., 224, 228, 231, 233, 243, 248, 250, 254p., 270 topic...108 topical.. 26, 49p., 103, 105, 106pp., 110, 116pp., 124, 129, 133, 136, 138pp., 192, 198, 200p., 205, 263, 266, 272, 286, 348pp., 375, 381p., 387, 394, 401, 407pp. topicality.. 16, 26, 30, 49, 103, 104, 107p., 116pp., 120, 122, 125, 135, 138, 140, 143, 195, 228, 235, 272, 339, 347, 349, 360, 379, 381, 401 transitive clause...109, 112pp., 126p., 140, 185, 187, 228, 339, 352, 353, 381 transitive verb.. 117, 271, 276, 279, 316, 341, 352, 359p., 369 transitivity...15, 111, 113pp., 119, 126p., 228, 235, 240p., 284, 350, 352, 353p., 381 U
