Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 582 p)
Ausgabe:
Reproduktion 2011
ISBN:
9783110880182
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3110173603
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9783110173604
Serie:
Mouton grammar library 25
Inhalt:
Biographical note: Claire Lefebvre is Professor at the University of Québec, Canada. Anne-Marie Brousseau is Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Inhalt:
This book is a reference grammar of Fongbe, a language which is part of the Gbe dialect cluster. It is spoken mainly in the former kingdom of Dahomey, which today comprises the southern areas of Benin and Togo. This book has three objectives: First, its main purpose is to provide a thorough description of the grammar of Fongbe. Second, this book provides language-specific syntactic tests which were developed in the course of this research. Finally, we provide the reader with the most exhaustive list possible of references on Fongbe, and on the Gbe languages in general. This book thus attempts to represent a "state of the art" of the language itself, and of the analyses proposed to account for its particular constructions. This book is of particular interest to Africanists, scholars interested in comparative linguistics or in the reconstruction of language families, and creolists who work on the languages spoken in the Caribbean area.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-572) and indexes
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Preface; List of tables; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Fongbe; 1.2. Aims and limitations of this book; 1.3. Overview of the major features of the language; 1.4. Sources of data on the language; 1.5 Database; 1.6 Mode of presentation of the data; 1.7. List of abbreviations; 2. Overview of the phonology; 2.1. Segmental inventories; 2.2. Syllable structures; 2.3. Tones; 2.4. Phonological processes; 2.5. Summary; 2.6. Orthographic conventions; Part I Functional categories; 3. Functional categories involved in the nominal structure; 3.1. The definite determiner; 3.2. The plural marker
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3.3. The indefinite determiner3.4. Bare NPs; 3.5. Demonstrative determiners; 3.6. Case markers; 3.7. Other constituents occurring in the nominal structure; 3.8. Can NPs be conjoined?; 3.9. Conclusion; 4. Pronominal forms; 4.1. Personal pronouns; 4.2. Pronominal clitics; 4.3. Expletives; 4.4. Possessive forms; 4.5. Wh-words and Wh-phrases; 4.6. The -d?éè anaphor; 4.7. The logophoric pronoun émì; 4.8. Conclusion; 5. Tense, mood and aspect; 5.1. The aspectual classes; 5.2. The interpretation of bare sentences; 5.3. Tense, mood and aspect markers; 5.4. Complex tenses
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5.5. Summary of tests used to distinguish between the four aspectual classes in Fongbe5.6. The imperative constructions; 5.7. Conclusion; 6. Functional categories involved in the structure of the clause; 6.1. Clausal conjunctions; 6.2. Complementisers; 6.3. The nominal operator d?é; 6.4. Negation markers; 6.5. Markers expressing the speaker's point of view with respect to the proposition; 6.6. The form wὲ 'it is'; 6.7. Conclusion; 7. Clause structures; 7.1. Copular structures; 7.2. Complement clause structures; 7.3. Clause structures involving Wh-movement; 7.4. Factive clause structures
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7.5. Causal adverbial clause structures7.6. Temporal adverbial clause structures; 7.7. Purposive clause structures; 7.8. Conditional clause structures; 7.9. Concessive clause structures; 7.10. Conclusion; Part II Lexical categories; 8. Morphology; 8.1. Theoretical assumptions; 8.2. Inventory of affixes; 8.3. Reduplication; 8.4. Conclusion; 9. Compounds; 9.1. The lexical category of compounds; 9.2. Tests to distinguish nominal compounds from nominal phrases; 9.3. Typology of compound nouns; 9.4. Semantic fields; 9.5. Conclusion; 10. Verbs
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10.1. Basic characteristics of the semantics of the verbal lexicon10.2. Types of argument structures; 10.3. The unergative/unaccusative distinction; 10.4. Argument alternations; 10.5. The syntactic properties of verbs; 10.6. Aspectual verbs; 10.7. Modal verbs; 10.8. Conclusion; 11. Prepositions and postpositions; 11.1. Prepositions; 11.2. Postpositions; 11.3. Do prepositions and postpositions constitute a uniform syntactic class?; 11.4. Conclusion; 12. Modifiers; 12.1. Adjectives; 12.2. Are there genuine adjectives that are colour terms?; 12.3. Numerals; 12.4. Quantifiers; 12.5. Adverbs
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Part III The major syntactic constructions of the language
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In English
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783110880182
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lefebvre, Claire, 1948 - A grammar of Fongbe Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002 ISBN 3110173603
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Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
Schlagwort(e):
Fon-Sprache
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Grammatik
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Fon-Sprache
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Grammatik
DOI:
10.1515/9783110880182
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