je ~ jen

This word in the works

Pages of the library’s works where this word appears.

• viii 4.7.4.4 je ~ jen ‘only’ ..................................................266 daɣ, harkíd ‘in addition, too’ ...........................266 4.7.4.5 4.7.4.6 inʒín ‘like’ .......................................................267 4.8 Complex Sentences .........................................................269 4.8.1 Clause coordination ..............................................269 4.8.1.1 Clausal ‘and’...................................................269 4.8.1.2 Clau …

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 11

• … d in a special type of NP of the type ‘Head [noun wáni ]’ (4.1.8). All elements except the head are optional for a NP. Modifiers like da ‘very (one)’, za ‘so’, jé ~ jén ‘only’ are discourse particles and not part of the NP. They may follow a NP. The maximal structure of a noun phrase is as follows: possessor – Head – (determiner) – demonstrative – numeral – adjective The determiner gives the NP a different status on sentence level. See discussion under 4.1.4. In postpositiona …

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 161