Efutu Grammar - Tapa blanda

Efutu, also called Awutu-Efutu or Senya is a Kwa language spoken by about 150,000 people in the Awutu, Efutu, and Senya areas of Ghana's Central Region. "Efutu Grammar" deals broadly with the sound system, tone, and aspects of morphology and syntax of the language. Important aspects of the language that are explicated include verbal reduplication, tense and aspect, as well as the pronominal system and structure. Nouns and noun plurality, noun phrase structure, adjectival and adverbial constructions, complementation, relativization, as well as focus marking are also discussed and exemplified. Other aspects of the language that are subjected to synthesis and analysis are determiners (definite, indefinite, and demonstrative) and quantifiers). Finally, Efutu ideophones and interjections (primary, secondary, and volitive) are also discussed and exemplified. Given the data oriented nature of Efutu Grammar, both theoretical and descriptive linguists will benefit from it considerably. CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The sound system and verbal reduplication 3. The pronominal system of Efutu 4. Determiners 5. Verbal constructions in Efutu 6. Nouns and noun phrases in Efutu 7. Subordinate clauses/complementation 8. Focusing 9. Adjectives ad adjectical phrases 10. Ideophones 11. Questions 12. Relativization 13. Locatives and adverbs 14. Interjections