Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond
By: edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann, Georg Ziegelmeyer.
Contributors: Cyffer, Norbert.; Ebermann, Erwin, 1953-; Ziegelmeyer, Georg.
Series: Typological studies in language -- v. 87
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027206688
Subjects: Africa, West -- Languages -- Negatives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Negation of non-indicative mood in Hausa, Fulfulde, and Kanuri / Georg Ziegelmeyer; title: The impact of clause types and focus control, aspect, modality, and referentiality on negation in Lamang and Hdi (Central Chadic) / H. Ekkehard Wolff; title: Quantification and polarity : negative adverbial intensifiers ("never ever", "not at all", etc.) in Hausa / Philip J. Jaggar; title: Negation patterns in Kanuri / Norbert Cyffer; title: Songhay verbal negation in its dialectal and areal context / Petr Zima; title: Negation in Jukun / Anne Storch; title: Negation marking in Igbo / Ozo-mekuri Ndimele; title: Aspects of discontinuous negation in Santome / Tjerk Hagemeijer; title: Negation in Gur : genetic, areal, and unique features / Kerstin Winkelmann and Gudrun Miehe; title: Double negation-marking : a case of contact-induced grammaticalization in West Africa? / Klaus Beyer; title: Negation in South Mande / Valentin Vydrine; title: From double negation to Portmanteau : comparative sentence negation in Northern Samo / Erwin Ebermann; title: The system of negation in Berber / Amina Mettouchi; title: Verb-object-negative order in Central Africa / Matthew S. Dryer.