Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Signs and sounds used in this book -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Mankon geographical location and history -- 1.1. Origin of the word "Mankon" -- 1.2. Geographical setting -- 1.3. Orgin and migration of the people -- 1.4. The Mankon confederacy -- 1.5. Mankon colonial contacts -- 1.6. Migrant settlers in Mankon -- Chapter Two: Mankon political, economic and social structure -- 2.1. Mankon traditional rule -- 2.2. Enstoolment -- 2.3. Economy -- 2.4. Social aspect -- 2.5. Religion -- 2.5.1. A ritual: from Ala'nkyi to Samni -- 2.5.2. A brief history of Ala'nkyi -- 2.5.3. The Nkyímali -- 2.5.4. Back on the hill -- 2.5.5. After Ala'nkyi -- 2.5.6. The Musongong rite -- 2.5.7. The Dance proper -- 2.6. The Mankon language -- Chapter Three: Mankon Phonology -- 3.1. Phonetics -- 3.1.1. Identification and classification of sounds -- 3.1.2. Description of the sounds -- 3.1.3. Position of sound occurrence in a word -- 3.1.4. Comments -- 3.1.5. Mankon alphabet -- 3.2. Distinctive features: phonemes -- 3.3. Phonemes vs. allophones -- 3.4. Assimilation, elision and deletion -- 3.5. A review of sound distribution -- 3.5.1. C1 and C2 Consonants -- 3.5.2. Vowels -- 3.6. Vowel elision and deletion -- 3.6.1. Elision -- 3.6.2. Deletion -- 3.7. Some Mankon morphophonemic rules -- 3.7.1. Nouns -- 3.7.2. Verbs -- 3.8. Reduplication -- 3.9. Morphological function of Mankon reduplicants -- 3.10. Mankon phonotactics -- 3.10.1 The concept of phonotactics -- 3.10.2. Mankon syllabic structure -- 3.11. Mankon tonology -- 3.11.1. level tones -- 3.11.2. Grammatical tones -- 3.11.3. Super high tone -- 3.11.4. Contour tones -- 3.11.5. Some uses of tone -- 3.12 Autosegmental phonology -- Chapter Four: Mankon Orthography -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Orthographic principles.

4.3. Mankon tone ortography -- 4.4. Ways of limiting tone marking in Mankon -- 4.5. Orthographic Depth vs. Grain Size Theory -- Chapter Five: Morphology -- 5.1. The notion of morphology -- 5.1.1. Derivational morpheme -- 5.1.2. Inflectional morpheme / declension -- 5.1.3. Free morpheme -- 5.1.4. Bound morpheme -- 5.1.5. Lexical Morpheme -- 5.1.6. Functional morpheme -- 5.1.7. Affixation -- 5.2. Word formation -- 5.2.1. Loaning / Borrowing -- 5.2.2. Compounding -- 5.2.3. Affixation -- 5.3. Parts of speech / Word classes -- 5.3.1. Nouns -- 5.3.2. Quantifiers -- 5.3.3. Partitives -- 5.3.4. Articles -- 5.3.5. Quantity: every, all, the whole -- 5.3.6. Quantity: small, a little -- 5.3.7. Quantity: much, a lot of, plenty of -- 5.3.8. Quantity: enough -- 5.3.9. Quantity: No, nothing -- 5.4. Noun classes and pronouns -- 5.5. Pronouns -- 5.5.1. Nominative -- 5.5.2. Accusative -- 5.5.3. Dative -- 5.5.4. Reflexive -- 5.6. Noun agreement with adjectives -- 5.7 Associative or genitive constructions -- 5.7.1. Singular -- 5.7.2. Plural -- 5.8. Verbs -- 5.9. Adverbs -- 5.10. Preposition -- 5.11. Negation -- 5.12. Only -- 5.13. Mood -- 5.14. What / Which -- 5.15. Colours -- Chapter Six: The proverb in Mankon -- 6.1 Purpose of study -- 6.2. Methodology, data collection and analysis -- 6.2.1. Methodology -- 6.2.2. Data analysis -- 6.3. Review of literature -- 6.4. Origin and meaning of the Mankon word for 'proverb' -- 6.5. Semantic structural analysis of the proverbs -- 6.5.1. Instructive / Declarative / Informative / Advisory types -- 6.5.2. Curse types -- 6.5.3. Rhetorical tyoes -- 6.5.4. Retribute types -- 6.5.6. Remunerative types -- 6.5.7. Personificative types -- 6.5.8. Other Proverbs -- Chapter Seven: Mankon proverbial syntax -- 7.1. Traditional grammar subject-verb-object (SVO) order -- 7.2. Immediate constituent (IC) analysis -- 7.2.1. At word level.

at phrase level -- 7.2.2. At sentence level -- 7.3. Deep and surface structures -- 7.4 Binary division -- 7.4.1. Positive equivalence -- 7.4.2. Megative equivalence -- 7.4.3. Positive causational -- 7.4.4. Negative causational -- 7.5. Paradigmatic and 'syntagmatic' (syntactic) relations -- 7.5.1. Characterisation -- 7.5.2. Generativism -- 7.6. The negative and the adjective -- 7.7. Style -- 7.7.1. Pictorial expressions and hyperbole -- 7.7.2. Dialogue -- 7.7.3. Onomatopoeia -- 7.7.4. Alliteration, Assonance and Rhyme -- 7.7.5. use of homely images -- 7.7.6. Man, as a false generic -- 7.7.7. Metonymy -- Chapter Eight: Functional analysis -- 8.1. Preliminaries -- 8.1.1. Linguistic communication -- 8.1.2. Judicial function -- 8.1.3. Ecucative function -- 8.1.4. Aesthetic function -- Chapter Nine: Stories -- 9.1 Myths and Legends -- 9.1.1. Myths -- 9.1.2. Legends -- 9.2. A joke (humour and entertainment) -- 9.3. The lullaby -- Appendix -- References -- Back Cover.