Topics in African linguistics: papers from the XXI Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. 1993
Schriftenreihe:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science v. 100
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:FAW01
FAW02
Volltext
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
TOPICS IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; EDITORS' FOREWORD; PART ONE: MORPHOSYNTAX; CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE BANTU VERB STEM; EWE VERBS IN DERIVATION AND PERIPHRASTIC CONSTRUCTIONS; LES PROCEDES REPETITIFS EN KIKONGO: LE REDOUBLEMENT ET LA REDUPLICATION; CLITIC CLIMBING IN BANTU; THE YORUBA SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTION: A COMPLEX OR SIMPLE SENTENCE?; LA NEGATION EN GBAYA 'BODOE; PART TWO: SEMANTICS; NAMES AND HONORIFIC PRONOUNS IN GBORBOKRAHN; LUOPERSONALNAMES: REFERENCE AND MEANING.
Time-stability: the case of adjectives in kivunjo-chagaon the typological character of property concepts in emai; part three: phonology; verb structure and tone in chiyao; on the reduced nasal phoneme of manding; part four: language contact; language variation and change in pervasively multilingual societies: bantu languages; building the frame in codeswitching: evidence from africa; phonological similarities between sango and its base language: is sango a pidgin/creole or a koiné?; can language planning work? theory versus practice in africa; author index; language index
The 16 papers in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at the conference; they represent the state of the art in various subfields of African linguistics into which the book is organized: (1) morphosyntax, (2) semantics, (3) phonology, and (4) language contact. The last part covers topics such as code-switching and mixing, pidginization/creolization, and language planning. The papers in Part I: Morphosyntax focus particularly on the verb and verb phrase in a variety of Niger-Congo languages, discussing several aspects of the verb morphology. The specific languages discussed inclu
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 317 pages)
ISBN:1283313081
9027277109
9781283313087
9789027277107

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen