A grammar of Eton

摘要: A Grammar of Eton is the first description Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It also one few complete descriptions a North-western language. The complex tonology carefully analysed and presented in simple consistent descriptive framework, which permits reader to keep track Eton's many tonal morphemes. Phonologists will be especially interested analysis stem initial prominence, manifests itself number logically independent phenomena, including length onset consonant, phonotactic skewing attachment sites. Typologists Africanists working on morphosyntax find useful analyses of, among others, gender agreement; tense, aspect, mood negation; verbal derivation. They encounter morphosyntactic differences between better known Eastern Southern languages, often due evolutions shaped by maximality constraints stems. chapters clause structure constructions provide data hardly found sources languages region, non-verbal clauses, focus, quasi-auxiliaries adverbial clauses.