Topics in Kwa Syntax

Edited by two leading experts on the languages of West Africa, this volume is the very first book to handle a range of topics in the syntax of Kwa, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken by approximately 20 million people in Ct̥e d<U+0019>Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin and in the e...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Aboh, Enoch O. (Editor), Essegbey, James. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
Series:Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 78
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