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Topics in African linguistics : papers from the XXI Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990 /

The 16 papers in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at the conference; they represent the state of the art in various subfields of African linguistics into which the book is organized: (1) morphosyntax, (2) semantics, (3) phonology, and (4) language contact. The last part covers to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Annual Conference on African Linguistics
Otros Autores: Mufwene, Salikoko S., Moshi, Lioba J.
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993.
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 100.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • TOPICS IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; EDITORS' FOREWORD; PART ONE: MORPHOSYNTAX; CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE BANTU VERB STEM; EWE VERBS IN DERIVATION AND PERIPHRASTIC CONSTRUCTIONS; LES PROCEDES REPETITIFS EN KIKONGO: LE REDOUBLEMENT ET LA REDUPLICATION; CLITIC CLIMBING IN BANTU; THE YORUBA SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTION: A COMPLEX OR SIMPLE SENTENCE?; LA NEGATION EN GBAYA 'BODOE; PART TWO: SEMANTICS; NAMES AND HONORIFIC PRONOUNS IN GBORBOKRAHN; LUOPERSONALNAMES: REFERENCE AND MEANING.
  • Time-stability: the case of adjectives in kivunjo-chagaon the typological character of property concepts in emai; part three: phonology; verb structure and tone in chiyao; on the reduced nasal phoneme of manding; part four: language contact; language variation and change in pervasively multilingual societies: bantu languages; building the frame in codeswitching: evidence from africa; phonological similarities between sango and its base language: is sango a pidgin/creole or a koiné?; can language planning work? theory versus practice in africa; author index; language index.