TY - BOOK AU - Cyffer,Norbert AU - Ebermann,Erwin AU - Ziegelmeyer,Georg TI - Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond T2 - Typological studies in language (TSL) SN - 9789027289391 (electronic bk.) AV - PL8017 .N45 2009eb U1 - 496 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Pub. Co. KW - Ontkenningen (taalkunde) KW - gtt KW - Afrikaanse talen KW - Africa, West KW - Languages KW - Negatives KW - West-Afrika KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Description based on print version record; 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=284014 ER -