Bøker av Ronald P. Schaefer

This grammar is the first description of Emai, an Edoid language of 25-35,000 villagers in southern Nigeria. Individual chapters delineate noun and verb phrases, clause character in discourse, clause combinations as well as tone functions.

This book assesses the retention, reduction, and transformation of inflectional nominal morphology in the Edoid language Emai. Putting Emai and its noun class system into a broader cultural and archaeological context of historical language change, the authors explore what it means to be a Benue Congo language with a reduced inflectional system