{"product_id":"a-grammar-of-seenku-9783110612950","title":"A Grammar of Seenku","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laura McPherson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeenku is a Western Mande language of the Samogo group spoken in southwestern Burkina Faso by approximately 17,000 speakers. It has undergone a lot of phonological reduction, leading to a rich segmental and tonal phoneme inventory but mainly mono- and sesquisyllabic roots. The language has four contrastive levels of tone that combine to create over a dozen contours. Tone has a high functional load lexically and grammatically, permeating all aspects of grammar. Most verbs have two stem forms: a realis form and an irrealis form. The realis is derived from the irrealis by infixing a high vowel before the stem vowel, creating a diphthong. The use of a particular stem form is determined by aspect and construction type, but most other morphosyntactic meanings (e.g. progressive aspect or causative) are expressed analytically. Like most Mande languages, Seenku has an S Aux O V X word order in addition to areal clause-final negation. It displays a reduced set of post-subject \"predicate markers\" compared to other Mande languages, and those that are attested are variably realized only by tone changes and lengthening on the subject itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46455685251223,"sku":"9783110612950","price":20116.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783110612950.webp?v=1769175773","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-grammar-of-seenku-9783110612950","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}