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Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond /
This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following typol...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2009.
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| Collection: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 87. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following typological features have been identified to be prominent in our region: conflict or even incompatibility between negation and focus, use of other indirect means of negating non-indicative mood (covered under the term 'Prohibitive'), different negation patterns in different Tense-Aspect-Moods (e.g. Imper. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (vi, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027289391 9027289395 9027206686 9789027206688 128231226X 9781282312265 9786612312267 6612312262 |