Tonal Ezafe in Mombo

Tones are used in Mombo to distinguish between both lexical and grammatical meanings. As other Dogon languages they play a crucial role the NP, where syntactic relations coded through word order accompanied by tonal changes nouns, adjectives, numerals, occurring at left edge of NP. The paper aims describe marking head its dependents as manifestation category similar construct state Semitic or ezafe Turkic West Iranian. Ezafe expresses fact that has dependent certain type: possessor, an adjective, demonstrative. According type one can identify possessive, attributive, demonstrative ezafe. These considered individual grammemes category. is assigned locally, i. e. within same constituent contains controller (the dependent) applies constituents rather than words. analysis constructions with two dependents, which possessor noun numeral suggests special position.