Tone in Igbo Syntax
Author: P. Akụjụọobi Nwachukwu
Publisher: Igbo Language Assoc
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13:
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The Syntax of Igbo Causatives
Author: Ndubuisi Anyanwu
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2016-12-14
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 978543110X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures. This study examines causatives in Igbo within the minimalist program. It identifies three types of causative: analytical, morphological and lexical. The book is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 is the general introduction, while Chapter 2 examines in some details the theory of causativity. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 focus on the analytical, morphological and lexical causative respectively.
Aspects of the Morphology-syntax Interface in Four Nigerian Languages
Author: Gerald Heusing
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9783825839178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study seeks to blend the rigorous description of four Nigerian languages with theoretical insights. Four main tasks are involved. First, constructions involving the interface of morphology and syntax in the four languages are presented with regard to the syntax of substantives and functional categories, the morphology of functional heads and the relation between functional heads and the syntactic level of language. Secondly, these constructions are described and analysed within the framework of the Principles and Parameters Theory. Thirdly, those theoretical approaches within the Principles and Parameters Theory that can serve as tools for the analysis of the four languages are refined and modified, thereby establishing a version of the theory which may also serve for the morpho-syntactic analysis of related languages. Finally the syntactic model of functional categories is combined with a strictly morpho-semantic model of functional categories.
A Grammar of Contemporary Igbo
Author: Emenanjo, E. Nolue
Publisher: M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Published: 2016-02-22
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9785412733
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In twenty-five chapters this book covers phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The chapters are organized in four discrete parts: phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. They are uneven in terms of scope covered, length, the density of their contents and their degrees of difficulty. Each chapter ends with ‘Some References’ relevant to both the topic(s) treated in the chapter, in Igbo linguistics, and in general linguistics.
African Languages from a Role and Reference Grammar Perspective
Author: Jens Fleischhauer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-05-08
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 3110795299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P
Author: Anna Asbury
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9789027255037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The category P belongs to a less studied area in theoretical linguistics, which has only recently attracted considerable attention. This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these contributions is the complex semantic and syntactic structure of PPs. Analyses are presented in several different frameworks and approaches, including generative syntax, optimality theoretic semantics and syntax, formal semantics, mathematical modeling, lexical syntax, and pragmatics. Among the languages featured in detail are English, German, Hebrew, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, and Persian. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of formal semantics, syntax and language typology, as well as scholars with a more general interest in spatial cognition.
African Language Structures
Author: William E. Welmers
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780520022102
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Readings in African American Language
Author: Nathaniel Norment
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780820478708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Readings in African American Language: Aspects, Features, and Perspectives, Volume 2 brings together scholars who research various theoretical approaches of the origin, characteristics, and development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). The advantages of AAVE, codeswitching, dialect interference in writing, theories, and politics in AAVE, text analysis, and critical pedagogy all are discussed in this volume. Each article provides a different perspective attesting to the vitality and relevance of African American language as an academic, social, and cultural/linguistic entry in the field of language studies.
African Language Structures
Author: Wm. E. Welmers
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2024-07-26
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0520413857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wm. E. Welmers surveys a wide range of structural characteristics, both phonological and grammatical, of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on thirty years of experience in the analysis and teaching of African languages, and on work done on some seventy spoken languages, Welmers has organized the volume by linguistic topic. Thus there are extensive discussions of tonal systems in languages from all over sub-Saharan Africa, of noun classes and concord in the Bantu and other Niger-Kordofanian languages, and of the varieties of verbal constructions found in representative languages. African Language Structures emphasizes the organization of language data rather than the technicalities of theoretical linguistics. The material is presented in such a way that students working on the analysis of other languages can be guided in their procedures; Welmers suggests not only what types of structures may be expected, but also how they may be discovered and described. This work is unique in the depth of its linguistic insight over the entire spectrum of language structure and in the breadth of its language coverage. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
The Language of African Literature
Author: Edmund L. Epstein
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780865435353
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