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Zauzou has two major dialects, the Guoli dialect and the Jiangmo dialect, which are mutually intelligible but exhibit a significant amount phonological and lexical discrepancies. This dissertation describes the Jiangmo Dialect. It is primarily based on the fieldwork data collected from the author's six field trips over a period of twelve months in the Tu'e Township. Zauzou is a highly tonal, verb-final isolating language with little morphology. It employs a large number of classifiers, a complex set of clause final particles, and extensive serial verb constructions, which are in common with other Loloish languages. Phonologically, Zauzou is a tone language, encompassing six syllable-level phonemic tones. It has a fairly large inventory of monophthongal vowels and diphthongal vowels. Zauzou vowels have a four-way contrast regulated by nasality and phonation: plain, nasal, tense, and nasal tense. Zauzou exhibits some degree of affixation. Most grammatical functions are encoded by various postpositions, grammatical particles and word order. The differential case marking system in Zauzou is basically pragmatically-driven. The optional case markers, the agent/causer marker xe31 and the patient marker ʔɔ31, are required for disambiguation. Classifiers are prominent in both noun and verb phrases, serving to quantify over entities and events. Sortal and mensural classifiers are used to quantify over count/mass nouns. There are also a set of plural classifiers that mark the plurality of nouns. In event quantification, verb classifiers are employed to count the time or occasion of a single action/event, or to measure the duration of a state. Both noun and verb classifiers can be derived from the noun or verb they collocate with. Verb serialization is the main device to encode multiple sub-events in a single predicate. Zauzou serial verb constructions (SVCs) typically contain two verbs, holding a cause-effect relation. Word order of the verbs may or may not reflect the sequence of the events. A substantial quantity of serial verbs and post-verbal particles appear in SVCs as coverbs that serve a variety of grammatical functions, ranging from resultatives, directionality, aspect, modality, to transitivity alternation (i.e. causative and applicative markers). Reduplication is actively used by Zauzou quantifiers, verbs, adjectives to express plurality, paucity, distribution, totality, specificity, repetition, emphasis, adverbialization, etc. The polysemy in many Zauzou function words is noteworthy. The agent/causer case postposition xe31 is also an instrumental and ablative marker. The topic marker nɛ33 is frequently used as a discourse particle that marks on conditional clauses and sequential clauses.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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Zauzou has two major dialects, the Guoli dialect and the Jiangmo dialect, which are mutually intelligible but exhibit a significant amount phonological and lexical discrepancies. This dissertation describes the Jiangmo Dialect. It is primarily based on the fieldwork data collected from the author's six field trips over a period of twelve months in the Tu'e Township. Zauzou is a highly tonal, verb-final isolating language with little morphology. It employs a large number of classifiers, a complex set of clause final particles, and extensive serial verb constructions, which are in common with other Loloish languages. Phonologically, Zauzou is a tone language, encompassing six syllable-level phonemic tones. It has a fairly large inventory of monophthongal vowels and diphthongal vowels. Zauzou vowels have a four-way contrast regulated by nasality and phonation: plain, nasal, tense, and nasal tense. Zauzou exhibits some degree of affixation. 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Word order of the verbs may or may not reflect the sequence of the events. A substantial quantity of serial verbs and post-verbal particles appear in SVCs as coverbs that serve a variety of grammatical functions, ranging from resultatives, directionality, aspect, modality, to transitivity alternation (i.e. causative and applicative markers). Reduplication is actively used by Zauzou quantifiers, verbs, adjectives to express plurality, paucity, distribution, totality, specificity, repetition, emphasis, adverbialization, etc. The polysemy in many Zauzou function words is noteworthy. The agent/causer case postposition xe31 is also an instrumental and ablative marker. The topic marker nɛ33 is frequently used as a discourse particle that marks on conditional clauses and sequential clauses.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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