عنوان

Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond

9789027206688 (hb : alk. paper)

9027206686 (hb : alk. paper)

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edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann, Georg Ziegelmeyer

Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond

Amsterdam ;Philadelphia :

John Benjamins Pub. Co.,

c2009.

vi, 368 p. :ill., maps ;25 cm.

Typological studies in language;87

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Negation of non-indicative mood in Hausa, Fulfulde and Kanuri / Georg Ziegelmeyer -- The impact of clause types and focus control, aspect, modality, and referentiality on negation in Lamang and Hdi (Central Chadic) / H. Ekkehard Wolff -- Quantification and polarity : negative adverbial intensifiers ("never ever", "not at all", etc.) in Hausa / Philip J. Jaggar -- Negation patterns in Kanuri / Norbert Cyffer -- Songhay verbal negation in its dialectal and areal context / Petr Zima -- Negation in Jukun / Anne Storch -- Negation marking in Igbo / Ozo-mekuri Ndimele -- Aspects of discontinuous negation in Santome / Tjerk Hagemeijer -- Negation in Gur : genetic, areal, and unique features / Kerstin Winkelmann and Gudrun Miehe -- Double negation-marking : a case of contact-induced grammaticalization in West Africa? / Klaus Beyer -- Negation in South Mande / Valentin Vydrine -- From double negation to Portmanteau : comparative sentence negation in Northern Samo / Erwin Ebermann -- The system of negation in Berber / Amina Mettouchi -- Verb-object-negative order in Central Africa / Matthew S. Dryer.

Africa, West--Languages--Negatives.

عنوان

Cyffer, Norbert.

Ebermann, Erwin,

Ziegelmeyer, Georg.

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