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The Syntax and Semantics of Yoruba Nominal Expressions /
The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures. This study is a departer from most previous work on Yorùbá Grammar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Yoruba |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Edición: | [Revised edition]. |
| Colección: | Landmarks series ;
1. Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures. This study is a departer from most previous work on Yorùbá Grammar in the sense that rather than being purely a descriptive grammar; it attempts to provide a theoretical analysis of the internal and external syntax of Yorùbá nominal expressions using the Chomskyan Principles and Parameters approach to syntax. This Generative theory attempts to characterize the grammar of all natural languages in terms of a set of universal principles that all languages share, and a set of parameters along which languages may vary. The book emphasizes the empirical motivation behind major theoretical proposals in that framework, and shows how views on the nature of universal grammar and cross-linguistic variation have developed over the years as a consequence of a massive increase in cross-linguistic syntactic research. |
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| Notas: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of British Columbia, 2005 titled Topics in Yorùbá nominal expressions. Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (284 pages): illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-264) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789785420890 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |