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    African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective : Studies on the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface / ed. by Jens Fleischhauer, Claudius Patrick Kihara.

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    • Title:African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective : Studies on the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface / ed. by Jens Fleischhauer, Claudius Patrick Kihara.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Anderson, Ciara.
      Egbokhare, Francis.
      Fleischhauer, Jens.
      Fleischhauer, Jens.
      Kihara, Claudius Patrick.
      Kihara, Claudius Patrick.
      Riccio, Anna.
      Schaefer, Ronald.
      Sennen Agbo, Maduabuchi.
      OAPEN
      De Gruyter Open Access Books
      DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
    • Published/Created:Düsseldorf : düsseldorf university press, [2023]
      copyright 2023
    • In:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1

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      Afrikanische Sprachen.
      Argument ‹Linguistik›.
      Grammatik.
      Informationsstruktur.
      African languages.
      Argument (linguistics).
      Grammar.
      Information structure.
    • Description:1 online resource
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      This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
    • Summary:The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from 'exotic' languages rather than English? Second, how can the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in different grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although RRG took linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning, African languages have been underrepresented in the development of the theory. Given the sheer number African languages deserve a wider coverage in a syntactic theory which takes linguistic diversity seriously. The volume is intended to fill this gap and comprises a selection of papers which investigate different aspects related to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different African languages. This includes: argument doubling and dislocation in iziZulu, complex referential phrases in Gĩkũyũ, serial verb constructions in Igbo, locative complements in Hausa and Zarma Chiine and focus constructions in Emai. The papers will extent the current RRG approach to new languages and phenomena.
    • Notes:In English.
      Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)
    • ISBN:9783110795295
      9783110794977
    • Contents:Frontmatter
      Contents
      African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective: An introduction
      A Functional Typology of Igbo Multi-verb Constructions
      The syntax-semantics interface of serial verb constructions in Kwa languages
      Postverbal Qualifiers and Constraints on Contrastive Focus
      A Case for the Antipassive in Babungo
      The Morphosyntax of the Gĩkũyũ Complex Reference Phrase
      Argument doubling and right-dislocation - An RRG analysis of head-marking in isiZulu
      Index
      Language index
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