Topics in Kwa Syntax

• 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
• Subjects: Linguistics.; African Languages.; Comparative linguistics.; Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.; Comparative Linguistics.; Syntax.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3189-1

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...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword. List of Contributors. Introduction. Map
• 1 <U+0013> Aboh, E.O., and Essegbey, J.: The Phonology Syntax Interface
• 2 <U+0013> Aboh, E. O.: Morphosyntax of the Noun Phrase
• 3 <U+0013> Aboh, E. O., and Essegbey, J.: General properties of the Clause in Kwa
• 4 <U+0013> Adesola, Oluseye: The Non-agreeing Subject Resumptive Pronoun in Yoruba
• 5 <U+0013> Saah, Kofi: Relative Clauses in Akan
• 6 <U+0013> Enoch O. Aboh: On the Right Edge C-type Negation Markers
• 7 <U+0013> Ameka, Felix: Information Packaging Construction in Kwa: Micro-variation and Typology
• 8 <U+0013> Essegbey, James: Inherent Complement Verbs and Double Object Constructions in Gbe
• 9 <U+0013> Larson, Martha: The Empty Subject Construction: Verb serialization in Baule
• Index.