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Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages : Structure, Function and Semantics /

This volume is a series of nine (9) contributions to our understanding of relativization strategies in eleven (11) languages of Cameroon spread into the seven (7) sub-branches of the Niger-Congo phylum: Ekoid, Mambiloid, Mamfe, Mbam, Narrow Bantu, Wide Grassfields, Yemne-Kimbi. As a productive strat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Atindogbé, Gratien Gualbert, Grollemund, Rebecca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]
Colección:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT ; 58.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Kaleidoscopic variations on grammatical themes: Relative clauses in Bantoid languages of Cameroon
  • 2. Accessibility and demonstrative operators in Basaá relative clauses
  • 3. The augment as a construct form marker in Eton relative clause constructions
  • 4. Relative clauses and relativization processes in Nugunu
  • 5. Kenyang relative clauses
  • 6. Relative clause in (Western) Ejagham
  • 7. A prolegomenon to the syntax of the relative clause in the Eastern Grassfields Bantu borderland
  • 8. Relative clause constructions in two Yemne-Kimbi languages
  • 9. Relative clauses in Vute grammar and discourse
  • 10. Relative clauses in Wawa
  • 11. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.