The verb and related areal features in West Africa
Subtitle: continuity and discontinuity within and across Sprachbund frontiers
By: Petr Zima (ed.) ; in co-operation with Norbert Cyffer ... [et al.].
Contributors: Pražský linguistický kroužek
Series: LINCOM studies in African linguistics -- 77; LINCOM studies in African linguistics -- 77.
Publisher: Lincom Europa
Published: 2009
Place of publication: München
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9783929075892
Subjects: Sprachgeographie; Languages in contact; Languages; Verb; Congresses; Linguistic geography; Klassifikation; African languages; Areal linguistics
Notes: Proceedings of an international workshop organised in cooperation with the Prague Linguistic Circle in Oct. 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Areal features and their limits  -- Petr Zima -- (p. 1-9).; title: Operator second and its variations in Mande languages  -- Thomas Bearth -- (p. 10-31).; title: The structure of the Kanuri verb phrase  -- Norbert Cyffer -- (p. 32-101).; title: Non-verbal predication in Kanuri : the crux of negation and focus  -- Norbert Cyffer -- (p. 102-131).; title: The verbal systems of Ron, Mushere, and Tangale 00 three southwestern chadic fringe languages  -- Herrmann Jungraithmayr -- (p. 132-157).; title: Ngas [Angas] : the verbal system  -- Herrmann Jungraithmayr -- (p. 158-191).; title: Verbal classes in the southern bole-tangale languages  -- Rudolf Leger -- (p. 192-203).; title: Areal features in northern Nigeria : towards a linguistic area  -- Henning Schreiber -- (p. 204-233).; title: The mutual interlay of the Hausa verbal categories expressed in the SP + VP complexes  -- Petr Zima -- (p. 307-344).; title: Areal features and language contact : the Volta basin as a linguistic convergence area?  -- Henning Schreiber -- (p. 204-233).; title: How to keep languages apart : chadic and jukunoid in contact  -- Anne Storch -- (p. 234-269).; title: Hausa in Kumasi -- an overview -- Ulrike Zoch-- (p. 355-381).