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African languages from a role and reference grammar perspective : studies on the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface

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African languages from a role and reference grammar perspective : studies on the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface / edited by Jens Fleischhauer and Claudius Patrick Kihara.
Publication
  • Berlin ; Boston : Düsseldorf University Press, an imprint of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]
  • ©2023

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Additional Authors
  • Fleischhauer, Jens, active 2013-
  • Kihara, Claudius Patrick
Description
196 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm
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 Gikuyu, 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."--
Subject
  • African languages > Grammar
  • Role and reference grammar
  • African languages
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
African languages from a role and reference grammar perspective: an introduction / Jens Fleischhauer and Claudius Patrick Kihara -- A functional typology of Igbo multi-verb constructions / Maduabuchi Sennen Agbo -- The syntax-semantics interface of serial verb constructions in Kwa languages / Anna Riccio -- Postverbal qualifiers and constraints on contrastive focus / Ronald Schaefer and Francis Agbokhare -- A case for the antipassive in Babungo / Ciara Anderson -- The morphosyntax of the Gĩkũyũ complex reference phrase / Claudius Patrick Kihara -- Argument doubling and right-dislocation - an RRG analysis of head-marking in isiZulu / Jens Fleischhauer.
Call Number
ReCAP 23-5103
ISBN
  • 9783110794977
  • 3110794977
LCCN
2023931462
OCLC
1353783150
Title
African languages from a role and reference grammar perspective : studies on the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface / edited by Jens Fleischhauer and Claudius Patrick Kihara.
Publisher
Berlin ; Boston : Düsseldorf University Press, an imprint of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added Author
Fleischhauer, Jens, active 2013- editor.
Kihara, Claudius Patrick, editor.
Other Form:
Ebook version: African languages from a role and reference grammar perspective. Berlin : Düsseldorf University Press, [2023] 9783110795349
Research Call Number
ReCAP 23-5103
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