Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond

Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond [electronic resource] / edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann, Georg Ziegelmeyer. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009. - 1 online resource (vi, 368 p.) : ill., maps. - Typological studies in language (TSL) ; v. 87 . - Typological studies in language ; v. 87. .

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Negation of non-indicative mood in Hausa, Fulfulde and Kanuri / Georg Ziegelmeyer -- The 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 South Mande / Valentin Vydrine -- From double negation to Portmanteau : comparative sentence negation in Northern Samo / Erwin Ebermann -- The system of negation in Berber / Amina Mettouchi -- Verb-object-negative order in Central Africa / Matthew S. Dryer.

9789027289391 (electronic bk.) 9027289395 (electronic bk.)

2009019499


Ontkenningen (taalkunde)
Afrikaanse talen.


Africa, West--Languages--Negatives.
West-Afrika.


Electronic books.

PL8017 / .N45 2009eb

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