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• Title:Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond / edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann, Georg Ziegelmeyer.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Cyffer, Norbert.
  Ebermann, Erwin, 1953-
  Ziegelmeyer, Georg.
  
• Published/Created:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PL8017 .N45 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Africa, West--Languages--Negatives.
  
• Description:vi, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  
• Series:Typological studies in language ; v. 87.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9789027206688 (hb : alk. paper)
  9027206686 (hb : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction / Norbert Cyffer
  Negation of non-indicative mood in Hausa, Fulfulde and Kanuri / Georg Ziegelmeyer
  impact of clause types and focus control, aspect, modality, and referentiality on negation in Lamang and Hdi (Central Chadic) / H. Ekkehard Wolff
  Quantification and polarity: Negative Adverbial Intensifiers ('never ever', 'not at all', etc.) in Hausa / Philip J. Jaggar
  Negation patterns in Kanuri / Norbert Cyffer
  Songhay verbal negation in its dialectal and areal context / Petr Zima
  Negation in Jukun / Anne Storch
  Negation marking in Igbo / Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
  Aspects of discontinuous negation in Santome / Tjerk Hagemeijer
  Negation in Gur: Genetic, areal and unique features / Kerstin Winkelmann and Gudrun Miehe
  Double negation-marking: A case of contact-induced grammaticalization in West Africa? / Klaus Beyer
  Negation in Southern Mande / Valentin Vydrine
  From double negation to portmanteau: Comparative sentence negation in Northern Samo / Erwin Ebermann
  system of negation in Berber / Amina Mettouchi
  Verb-object-negative order in central Africa / Matthew S. Dryer.