Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond /:

This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following typol...

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Weitere Verfasser: Cyffer, Norbert, Ebermann, Erwin, 1953-, Ziegelmeyer, Georg
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Schriftenreihe:Typological studies in language ; v. 87.
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Zusammenfassung:This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following typological features have been identified to be prominent in our region: conflict or even incompatibility between negation and focus, use of other indirect means of negating non-indicative mood (covered under the term 'Prohibitive'), different negation patterns in different Tense-Aspect-Moods (e.g. Imper.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027289391
9027289395
9027206686
9789027206688
128231226X
9781282312265
9786612312267
6612312262

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