Quotative indexes in African languages : a synchronic and diachronic survey /

The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Güldemann, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008.
Colección:Empirical approaches to language typology ; 34.
Temas:
African languages > Classification.
African languages > Discourse analysis.
African languages > Indexes.
Langues africaines > Classification.
Langues africaines > Analyse du discours.
Langues africaines > Index.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > African Languages.
African languages.
Sprachtypologie
Redeerwähnung
Afrikanische Sprachen
Indirekte Rede
Classification.
Indexes.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. The study is based primarily on this language sample, in particular on the analysis of quotative indexes and related expressions from a text corpus of each sample language, but also includes a wide range of data from the
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxi, 686 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 612-654) and indexes.
ISBN:9783110211450
3110211459
1283398133
9781283398138
ISSN:0933-761X ;

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