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Coding participant marking : construction types in twelve African languages /
Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialization in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in langua...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 110. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialization in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in languages of northeastern Africa, which also use converbs and light verb plus coverb constructions. Although the categorial distinction between nouns and verbs is generally clear in African languages, a number of them nevertheless provide intricate analytical challenges in this respect. Whereas some langu. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 389 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027289612 9027289611 1282104187 9781282104181 9786612104183 661210418X |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |