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African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective Studies on the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface

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African languages cover more than one fourth of the world's languages, but still have been underrepresented in linguistic theories. The volume intends to fill this gap and addresses aspects of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of African languages from a Role & Reference Grammar per...

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Other Authors: Fleischhauer, Jens (Editor), Kihara, Claudius Patrick (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2023
Subjects:
Language
Language: history & general works
Historical & comparative linguistics
Semantics & pragmatics
Grammar, syntax & morphology
African languages Argument (linguistics)
Information structure
Grammar
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Summary:African languages cover more than one fourth of the world's languages, but still have been underrepresented in linguistic theories. The volume intends to fill this gap and addresses aspects of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of African languages from a Role & Reference Grammar perspective. Accordingly, distinctive linguistic phenomena of iziZulu, Gĩkũyũ, Igbo, Babungo, Emai and other African languages are discussed in the contributions.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (196 p.)
ISBN:9783110795295
9783110794977
9783110795349
Access:Open Access

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