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Books: Typology: Voeltz (Ed)

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Message 1: Studies in African Linguistic Typology: Voeltz (Ed)
Date: 18-Apr-2006
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Studies in African Linguistic Typology: Voeltz (Ed)


Title: Studies in African Linguistic Typology Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 64

Publication Year: 2006 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Editor: F. K. Erhard Voeltz, University of Cologne

Hardback: ISBN: 9027229759 Pages: 426 Price: Europe EURO 145.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027229759 Pages: 426 Price: U.S. $ 174.00

Abstract:

The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly all implicational in nature.

Based upon a detailed survey of a particular linguistic phenomenon in a given language or language area conclusions are drawn about the general nature about this phenomenon in the languages of Africa and beyond. They represent as such a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough understanding of African linguistic structures. This approach is well justified. Taking the other road, attempting to pick out linguistic details from often fairly superficially documented languages runs the risk that the data and its implications for the structure investigated might be misunderstood. Consequentially only very few studies of this nature giving the very broad perspective, the overview of a particular structure type covering the whole African continent are represented here.

Table of contents

Introduction F. K. Erhard Voeltz ix-xiii

Future tense and aspect marking in Southern Bantu Herman M. Batibo 1-12

The marking of directional deixis in Somali: How typological idiosyncratic is it? Philippe Bourdin 13-41

A typology of subject and object markers in African languages Denis Creissels 43-70

Head marking, dependent marking and constituent order in the Nilotic area Gerrit J. Dimmendaal 71-92

Agent phrases in Bantu passives Axel Fleisch 93-111

Grammaticalization of switch reference: Motivation and means Zygmunt Frajzyngier 113-130

Complex predicates based on generic auxiliaries as an areal feature in Northeast Africa Tom Güldemann 131-154

The OHO constraint Richard J. Hayward 155-169

The word in Luganda. Larry M. Hyman and Francis X. Katamba 171-193

Case in Africa: On categorial misbehavior Christa König 195-207

The typology of relative clause formation in African languages Tania Kuteva and Bernard Comrie 209-228

Deictic categories in particles and demonstratives in three Gur languages Kézié Koyenzi Lébikaza 229-249

Preprefix or not - that is the question: The case of Kwangali, Kwanyama and Ndonga Karsten Legere 251-262

Nonverbal and verbal negations in Kabyle (Berber): A typological perspective Amina Mettouchi 263-276

Grammaticalization chains of the verb Kàre 'to give' in Kabba Rosmarie Moser 277-301

Selectors in Cushitic Maarten Mous 303-325

How Bantu is Kiyansi? A re-examination of its verbal inflections Salikoko S. Mufwene 327-335

Diathesis alternation in some Gur languages Brigitte Reineke and Gudrun Miehe 337-360

Structure and function of incorporation processes in compounding Claudia Maria Riehl and Christa Kilian-Hatz 361-376

Toward a typological perspective for Emai's BE constructions. Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis Oisaghaede Egbokhare 377-396

Intrinsic focus and focus control in two varieties of Hausa H. Ekkehard Wolff 397-415

Language index 417-419

Name index 421-423

Subject index 425-426



Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Subject Language(s): Hausa (hau) Kaba (ksp) Kwanyama (kua) Kwangali (kwn) Kabyle (kab) Ganda (lug) Ndonga (ndo) Somali (som)

Written In: English (eng)

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