Asimjeeg_Datooga_Grammatical_Sketch Documentation of Isimjeeg Datooga

A grammatical sketch of Asimjeeg Datooga, including sociolinguistic background, phonology, morphology and syntax. The grammar sketch covers a range of different topics in the grammatical system of Asimjeeg Datooga, and also includes a literature review, information about the sociolinguistic background of the language, and a brief description of language endangerment and multilingualism. In the phonology section, the phoneme inventory, phonotactics, and tone system are described. In the nominal morphosyntax section, nominal morphology and tonology are described, including number, demonstrative, possessive, anaphoric reference, and case constructions. In the verbal morphosyntax section, a brief outline of verbal morphology is provided, including, verb classes, ATR, indexation, tense-aspect-mood constructions, directionality, tone, and relative clause constructions. The section on closed classes describes the basic structure and distributional properties of pronominals, adjectives, numerals, adverbials, prepositions, conjunctions, and discourse particles. The final two sections describe verbal and non-verbal syntactic constructions. Bundle includes PDF file.