The verb and related areal features in West Africa

continuity and discontinuity within and across Sprachbund frontiers

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The verb and related areal features in West Africa

continuity and discontinuity within and across Sprachbund frontiers

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Lincom Europa
Language
English
Pages
381

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Table of Contents

Areal features and their limits -- Petr Zima -- (p. 1-9).
Operator second and its variations in Mande languages -- Thomas Bearth -- (p. 10-31).
The structure of the Kanuri verb phrase -- Norbert Cyffer -- (p. 32-101).
Non-verbal predication in Kanuri : the crux of negation and focus -- Norbert Cyffer -- (p. 102-131).
The verbal systems of Ron, Mushere, and Tangale 00 three southwestern chadic fringe languages -- Herrmann Jungraithmayr -- (p. 132-157).
Ngas [Angas] : the verbal system -- Herrmann Jungraithmayr -- (p. 158-191).
Verbal classes in the southern bole-tangale languages -- Rudolf Leger -- (p. 192-203).
Areal features in northern Nigeria : towards a linguistic area -- Henning Schreiber -- (p. 204-233).
The mutual interlay of the Hausa verbal categories expressed in the SP + VP complexes -- Petr Zima -- (p. 307-344).
Areal features and language contact : the Volta basin as a linguistic convergence area? -- Henning Schreiber -- (p. 204-233).
How to keep languages apart : chadic and jukunoid in contact -- Anne Storch -- (p. 234-269).
Hausa in Kumasi -- an overview -- Ulrike Zoch-- (p. 355-381).

Edition Notes

Proceedings of an international workshop organised in cooperation with the Prague Linguistic Circle in Oct. 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
München
Series
LINCOM studies in African linguistics -- 77, LINCOM studies in African linguistics -- 77.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.4460966
Library of Congress
P130.52.A358 V47 2009, PL8008 .V47 2009

The Physical Object

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381 p. :
Number of pages
381

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25023606M
ISBN 10
392907589X
ISBN 13
9783929075892
LCCN
2010359179
OCLC/WorldCat
492093148

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