African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective : Studies on the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface /
The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from 'exotic' languages ra...
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Düsseldorf :
düsseldorf university press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective: An introduction
- A Functional Typology of Igbo Multi-verb Constructions
- The syntax-semantics interface of serial verb constructions in Kwa languages
- Postverbal Qualifiers and Constraints on Contrastive Focus
- A Case for the Antipassive in Babungo
- The Morphosyntax of the Gĩkũyũ Complex Reference Phrase
- Argument doubling and right-dislocation
- An RRG analysis of head-marking in isiZulu
- Index
- Language index