Welcome to Medumba WikiEdit

Medumba Wiki is a shared knowledge database representing the collected knowledge of Medumba@Boston University (MBU). The wiki is formatted as a working grammar.

ContributingEdit

To begin working, choose a section and get to adding information. If you need a brief tutorial on how to edit a page or have a question regarding formatting, please visit the crash course in wikitext. To view a list of people who have worked on this project, please see the acknowledgments page.

SyntaxEdit

VerbsEdit

• Wh-questions
• Yes/No questions
• Negation
• Control Verbs
• Tense
• Relativizer
• Clefted Structure
• Relative Clauses
• Conditionals
• Imperatives
• Aspect and Manner

NounsEdit

• Noun Class
• Possession
• Pronouns
• Plurals
• Flora and Fauna

ModifiersEdit

• Comparatives
• Superlatives
• Location
• Colors
• Adverbs and Adverb Phrases

PhonologyEdit

• Tone
• Inventory

Documentation ToolsEdit

ELDER, the Endangered language documentation electronic resource, is a web tool developed by Anna Belew to assist linguists in organizing and making primary data available. Please link to examples from ELDER if possible and as always, contribute any relevant data to ELDER if it is not already part of the database.

In addition, various sound files and descriptive work can be accessed at the Medumba Google Group.