This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages, including locative predication, expressions of tense, aspect, and mood in relation to verbal complexes and verb serialisation, verb semantics, and nominalization of predicates. The chapters take inspiration from Felix Ameka’s approach to the study of language according to which the main task of a linguist is to collaborate with language users to understand communicative practices in different contexts and to uncover how these practices impact grammatical and semantic aspects of the language. Accordingly, the descriptions and analyses in this book serve to understand language variation in different ecologies, rather than to impose pre-established descriptive frames on less described languages. Together, the chapters in the book represent a bird’s eye view of predication strategies in various African languages and can therefore serve as readings for both introductory and advanced level courses on predication from a typological or comparative perspective.
Aboh Enoch O. Aboh & Essegbey James Essegbey
Predication in African Languages [EPUB ebook]
Predication in African Languages [EPUB ebook]
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 356 ● ISBN 9789027247018 ● Éditeur Aboh Enoch O. Aboh & Essegbey James Essegbey ● Maison d’édition John Benjamins Publishing Company ● Publié 2024 ● Téléchargeable 3 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 9526199 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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