The Morphosyntax of Complement-Head Sequences [electronic resource] : Clause Structure and Word Order Patterns in Kwa
Aboh, Enoch Olade.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2003.
This text looks at the syntax of the Niger-Conger language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a native speaker of one of the languages (Gungbe) discusses and analyses different aspects of the syntax of the Kwa language group.
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Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Purpose and organization of the book; 1.2 Theoretical background; 2 Outline of the Grammar of Gbe ; 2.1 On the term Gbe; 2.2 The Gbe cluster; 2.3 Notes on tones in the syntax of Gbe; 2.4 Word order and clause structure; 2.5 More on the SOV versus SVO asymmetry; 2.6. Conclusion; 3 The Syntax of Noun Phrases; 3.1 The Gungbe D-system and the split-D hypothesis; 3.2 The nominal inflectional domain; 3.3 DP licensing and snowballing movement; 3.4 Conclusion; Appendix: On the Gungbe 'Fake Postpositions'; 4 The Syntax of Pronouns
4.1 Theoretical background4.2 The Gungbe personal pronouns; 4.3 Conclusion; 5 Tense, Aspect, and Mood: The Preverbal Markers; 5.1 Setting the stage; 5.2 The Gungbe IP-markers; 5.3 The Gungbe CP-markers: Conjunction ní and injunctive ní ; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 Object Shift and Verb Movement; 6.1 The OV order in imperfective and related constructions; 6.2 The internal structure of OV constructions; 6.3 The VO order and the non-imperfective clauses; 6.4 Conclusion; 7 Focus and Wh Constructions; 1. Focus; 2. Wh-questions in Gungbe; 3. Conclusion; 8 Argument Topics and Yes-No Questions
8.1 Argument topics in Gungbe8.2 Yes-no questions: On the sentence-final CP-markers; 8.3 Conclusion; Appendix: Some speculations about the so-called clausal determiners; 9 Conclusion ; Notes; References; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y
This text looks at the syntax of the Niger-Conger language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a native speaker of one of the languages (Gungbe) discusses and analyses different aspects of the syntax of the Kwa language group.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kwa languages -- Syntax.