A Grammar of Mombo Songho Dialect

11.1.10 Valency of the benefactive 23011.1.11 Verb Phrase 23211.1.12 Fixed subject-verb combinations 23311.1.13 Fixed verb-object combinations 23311.1.14 Formal relationships between cognate nominal and verb 23411.1.14.1 Grammatical status of cognate nominal 23911.2 ‘BE’, ‘BECOME’, ‘HAVE’, AND OTHER STATIVES 23911.2.1 ‘It is’ clitics 23911.2.1.1 Positive ‘it is’ (=wo) 23911.2.1.2 ‘It is not’ (=la) 24011.2.1.3 Identification construction 24111.2.2 Existential and locative quasi-verbs and particles 24311.2.2.1 Existential ò 24311.2.2.2 Locational quasi-verb (tula-, negative tonda) 24611.2.3 ‘Be put in/on’ 24811.2.4 Morphologically regular verbs 24911.2.4.1 ‘Remain, happen’ (bee-) 24911.2.4.2 ‘Become, happen’ (xxx) 25111.2.4.3 ‘Want, like’ (xxx) 25211.2.4.4 ‘Fear’ (ní:wɛ̀) 25411.3 QUOTATIVE VERB 25611.3.1 ‘Say’ (xxx) 25611.4 ADJECTIVAL PREDICATES 25611.4.1 Positive adjectival predicates 26011.4.2 Negative adjectival and stative predicates (xxx) 26011.5 POSSESSIVE PREDICATES 26011.5.1 ‘Have’ (so-/sa-) 26011.5.2 ‘Belong to’ predicates 26111.6 VERB ITERATION 26211.6.1 Uninflected iteration of type [v1-v1(-v1 )] 26213 FOCALIZATION AND INTERROGATION 26413.1 FOCALIZATION 26413.1.1 TERM FOCUS 26413.1.2 PREDICATE-CENTERED FOCUS 26613.1.3 RELATIVE MARKEDNESS OF FOCUS CONSTRUCTIONS AND TOPICALITY 26813.1.4 Subject focalization 27113.1.5 Object focalization 27213.1.6 Focalization of PP or other adverb 273viii