Studies in African Linguistic Typology 1st Edition by F K Erhard Voeltz ISBN 9027293570 9789027293572
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ISBN 10: 9027293570
ISBN 13: 9789027293572
Author: F. K. Erhard Voeltz
The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly all implicational in nature. Based upon a detailed survey of a particular linguistic phenomenon in a given language or language area conclusions are drawn about the general nature about this phenomenon in the languages of Africa and beyond. They represent as such a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough understanding of African linguistic structures. This approach is well justified. Taking the other road, attempting to pick out linguistic details from often fairly superficially documented languages runs the risk that the data and its implications for the structure investigated might be misunderstood. Consequentially only very few studies of this nature giving the very broad perspective, the overview of a particular structure type covering the whole African continent are represented here.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Future tense and aspect marking in Southern Bantu
Chapter 2: The marking of directional deixis in Somali: How typological idiosyncratic is it?
Chapter 3: A typology of subject and object markers in African languages
Chapter 4: Head marking, dependent marking and constituent order in the Nilotic area
Chapter 5: Agent phrases in Bantu passives
Chapter 6: Grammaticalization of switch reference: Motivation and means
Chapter 7: Complex predicates based on generic auxiliaries as an areal feature in Northeast Africa
Chapter 8: The OHO constraint
Chapter 9: The word in Luganda
Chapter 10: Case in Africa: On categorial misbehavior
Chapter 11: The typology of relative clause formation in African languages
Chapter 12: Deictic categories in particles and demonstratives in three Gur languages
Chapter 13: Preprefix or not — that is the question: The case of Kwangali, Kwanyama and Ndonga
Chapter 14: Nonverbal and verbal negations in Kabyle (Berber): A typological perspective
Chapter 15: Grammaticalization chains of the verb Kàre ‘to give’ in Kabba
Chapter 16: Selectors in Cushitic
Chapter 17: How Bantu is Kiyansi? A re-examination of its verbal inflections
Chapter 18: Diathesis alternation in some Gur languages
Chapter 19: Structure and function of incorporation processes in compounding
Chapter 20: Toward a typological perspective for Emai’s BE constructions
Chapter 21: Intrinsic focus and focus control in two varieties of Hausa
Language index
Name index
Subject index
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