A Featural Typology Of Bantu Agreement
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| Author | : Jenneke van der Wal |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2022-03-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 019884428X |
This book explores variation in Bantu subject and object marking on the basis of data from 75 Bantu languages. It specifically addresses the question of which features are involved in agreement and nominal licensing, and examines how parametric variation in those features accounts for the settings and patterns that are attested crosslinguistically.
| Author | : Andrew Nevins |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2022-11-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0192897748 |
This volume draws on insights from a range of theoretical perspectives to explore objects, agreement, and their intersecting angles, based on novel data from multiple language families. The chapters explores the mechanics of object agreement, constraints on symmetry, features of object agreement, and issues relating to the left periphery.
| Author | : Jens Fleischhauer |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2023-05-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110795299 |
The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & 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 rather than English? Second, how can the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in different grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although RRG took linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning, African languages have been underrepresented in the development of the theory. Given the sheer number African languages deserve a wider coverage in a syntactic theory which takes linguistic diversity seriously. The volume is intended to fill this gap and comprises a selection of papers which investigate different aspects related to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different African languages. This includes: argument doubling and dislocation in iziZulu, complex referential phrases in Gĩkũyũ, serial verb constructions in Igbo, locative complements in Hausa and Zarma Chiine and focus constructions in Emai. The papers will extent the current RRG approach to new languages and phenomena.
| Author | : Yaqian Huang |
| Publisher | : Language Science Press |
| Total Pages | : 580 |
| Release | : 2024-05-23 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3961104727 |
This volume contains a selection of papers that were presented at the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held virtually at the University of California San Diego. There are 21 papers covering phonology, morphology, syntax, lexical semantics, sociolinguistics, typology and historical linguistics. The volume features a keynote paper that proposes a novel community-based approach to language documentation. African languages investigated in detail include Wolof, Mende, Dangme, Kusaal, Nzema, Anii, Nigerian Pidgin, Tunen, Nyokon, Vale, Lokoya, Lopit, Otuho, Kalenjin, Tiriki, Oromo, Tigrinya, Asá, Qwadza, and Ikalanga.
| Author | : Andrew Nevins |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2022-12-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1009034278 |
For decades, a small set of major world languages have formed the basis of the vast majority of linguistic theory. However, minoritized languages can also provide fascinating contributions to our understanding of the human language faculty. This pioneering book explores the transformative effect minoritized languages have on mainstream linguistic theory, which, with their typically unusual syntactic, morphological and phonological properties, challenge and question frameworks that were developed largely to account for more widely-studied languages. The chapters address the four main pillars of linguistic theory – syntax, semantics, phonology, and morphology – and provide plenty of case studies to show how minoritized language can disrupt assumptions, and lead to modifications of the theory itself. It is illustrated with examples from a range of languages, and is written in an engaging and accessible style, making it essential reading for both students and researchers of theoretical syntax, phonology and morphology, and language policy and politics.
| Author | : Ian G. Roberts |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 730 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198804636 |
In this book, Ian Roberts argues that the essential insight of the principles-and-parameters approach to variation can be maintained - albeit in a somewhat different guise - in the context of the minimalist programme. The book represents a significant new contribution to the formal study of cross-linguistic morphosyntactic variation.
| Author | : Rebecca Woods |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 979 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198844301 |
This book offers the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property. It includes formal theoretical work alongside psycholinguistic and language acquisition studies, examines data from a range of languages, and shows that V2 phenomena are much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought.
| Author | : Luise Schwarzer |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2024-08-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3111353745 |
This monograph presents the first in-depth empirical and theoretical study of determiner sharing in German, addressing both its language-specific properties and its comparative syntax. Determiner sharing poses an interesting problem for syntactic theory as it seemingly relies on a parasitic relationship with another form of ellipsis, such as gapping. The first part provides an empirical basis by presenting three acceptability judgment studies for German. The results reveal the novel generalization that determiner sharing is not uniquely dependent on gapping, but can also occur in stripping contexts. The analysis that is developed in the second part shows that the apparent parasitism of determiner sharing can be derived by combining two independently available processes, namely a type of ellipsis like gapping, and a type of movement like split topicalization. The analysis thus avoids any construction-specific additions to the syntactic framework. The findings constitute an argument for approaches to ellipsis that posit an obligatory movement step and thereby contribute to an ongoing debate in the field.
| Author | : Emily Clem |
| Publisher | : Language Science Press |
| Total Pages | : 788 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3961102058 |
The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers in the volume examine Areal Features and Linguistic Reconstruction in Africa, and were presented at a special workshop on this topic held alongside the general session of ACAL.
| Author | : Sam Mchombo |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2004-10-14 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780521573788 |
This comprehensive book provides a detailed description of the major syntactic structures of Chichewa. Assuming no prior knowledge of current theory, it covers topics such as relative clause and question formation, interactions between tone and syntactic structure, aspects of clause structure such as complementation, and phonetics and phonology. It also provides a detailed account of argument structure, in which the role of verbal suffixation is examined. Sam Mchombo's description is supplemented by observations about how the study of African languages, specifically Bantu languages, has contributed to progress in grammatical theory, including the debates that have raged within linguistic theory about the relationship between syntax and the lexicon, and the contributions of African linguistic structure to the evaluation of competing grammatical theories. Clearly organised and accessible, The Syntax of Chichewa will be an invaluable resource for students interested in linguistic theory and how it can be applied to a specific language.
