The grammar of verbs and their arguments
Subtitle: a cross-linguistic perspective
By: edited by James Essegbey, Dalina Kallulli, Adams Bodomo
Contributors: Hellan, Lars, honouree; Essegbey, James, 1963- editor, author; Kallulli, Dalina, editor, author; Bodomo, Adams, editor, author
Series: Grammatical analyses of African languages = Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen -- volume 59; Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen -- Bd. 59.
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9783896457691
Subjects: African languages; Congresses; Grammar; Verb; Syntax; 17.55 morphology (linguistics)
Description: The papers in this volume are part of papers presented at the International Workshop on Verbs and Their Arguments at the University of Vienna in November 2015. The workshop was organized in honor of Prof. Lars Hellan who has either trained the contributors in the analysis of verbs and their arguments, or worked with them on a project in that field.00Some of the chapters deal with tense, aspect, modality and polarity categories of verbs. Others explore verb semantics, argument structure, argument realization, serial verb constructions, predicate-cleft constructions, object agreement and issues related to syntax-semantics interface.
Notes: Includes papers first presented at the International Workshop on Verbs and Their Arguments, held at the University of Vienna on November 7, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / James Essegbey, Dalina Kallulli, and Adams Bodomo; title: Tense, modality and aspect in Krio: a corpus based study / Dorothee Beermann; title: TAMP marking in Proto-Kwa: what can we reconstruct? / Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu; title: Verb constructions at the syntax-semantics interface / Felix K. Ameka; title: Cutting across the Akan-Gbe divide / James Essegbey; title: A Dagaare pandora's box: the syntax of verb serialization in an oral literature context / Adams Bodomo; title: Predicate cleft constructions in Kúsáàl / Hasiyatu Abubakari; title: On a true universal: from clitic doubling in Albanian to object agreement in Bantu / Dalina Kallulli; title: Situations in grammar / Lars Hellan.