A Grammar of Mombo Songho Dialect

1SG-with work do.IPFV-PROSP.1SG‘I work (together) with him’‘I work with it (=an instrument)’Unlike nouns, personal pronouns can not take the locative marker -ndá. Thisoption however is available for some locative pronouns (see § 4.4.2.1).There are two series of possessor pronominals. One is pronominal prefixes (exceptfor the 3SG) attached to the possessed noun, which are typically used for inalienablepossession (see § 6.2.1). The 3SG possessor is expressed by a suffix. The other is aseries of pronouns that occur to the right of the head noun, after adjectives andnumerals (see § 6.1.1). This series is typically used for alienable possession (see § 6.2.2for details). I will refer to these two series as preposed and postposed possessorpronouns. Example (xx7) and (xx8) show 1SG possessor expressed by a preposed andpostposed pronominal.(xx7) m̀ -báP.1SG-father.H‘my father’(xx8) dèbúhouse.LH‘my house’ɲɛ̂:P.1SGLogophoric subjects are expressed by affixes on the verb, different for differentverbal forms. See § 10.xxx and § 18.2xxx for details. The following example showslogophoric subject prefix used with the imperfective chaining form:(xx10) bɔ̂:ⁿ, pàtró:ⁿ ɲɛ̂: bâ: là, ɛǹɛ̂:-ó-nɛ̂: sélé:, mí:-wⁿ à-tá:rèwell boss.LH P.1SG DEF too if.it's.so each 1SG-OBJ LOG-say.PFVà-mályè-nɛ́ wâ:LOG-see-IPFV.CH QUOT‘Well, my boss j said (that) if it is so, she j would tell me and see (what I willsay)’. AF.028The plural logophoric subject is expressed by prefix ké- (cf. (xx11)). Note that thesame prefix is used for the non-logophoric 3PL pronominal subject only when theclause contains a non-subject focalized constituent.(xx11) yɔ́:-gè bâ: égá: ké-bô: wàwoman-PL DEF come.IPFV 3PL-be QUOT‘the women said they will come’There are no special logophoric pronouns used in the object, comitative orpossessor function. In the quoted speech construction ordinary third person pronounsoccur on their place. See § 18.2.xxx for details.41