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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 87. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Negation of non-indicative mood in Hausa, Fulfulde and Kanuri / Georg Ziegelmeyer
- The impact of clause types and focus control, aspect, modality, and referentiality on negation in Lamang and Hdi (Central Chadic) / H. Ekkehard Wolff
- Quantification and polarity : negative adverbial intensifiers ("never ever", "not at all", etc.) in Hausa / Philip J. Jaggar
- Negation patterns in Kanuri / Norbert Cyffer
- Songhay verbal negation in its dialectal and areal context / Petr Zima
- Negation in Jukun / Anne Storch
- Negation marking in Igbo / Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
- Aspects of discontinuous negation in Santome / Tjerk Hagemeijer
- Negation in Gur : genetic, areal, and unique features / Kerstin Winkelmann and Gudrun Miehe
- Double negation-marking : a case of contact-induced grammaticalization in West Africa? / Klaus Beyer
- Negation in South Mande / Valentin Vydrine
- From double negation to Portmanteau : comparative sentence negation in Northern Samo / Erwin Ebermann
- The system of negation in Berber / Amina Mettouchi
- Verb-object-negative order in Central Africa / Matthew S. Dryer.