The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Bantu / / edited by Jenneke van der Wal and Larry M. Hyman
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The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Bantu / / edited by Jenneke van der Wal and Larry M. Hyman
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| Pubblicazione: | Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (468 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 496.39 |
| Soggetto topico: | Bantu languages - Verb phrase |
| Classificazione: | EP 13210 |
| Persona (resp. second.): | Van der WalJenneke <1981-> |
| HymanLarry M. | |
| Note generali: | Includes indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is the conjoint/disjoint alternation? Parameters of crosslinguistic variation -- 3. Locating the Bantu conjoint/disjoint alternation in a typology of focus marking -- 4. Disentangling conjoint, disjoint, metatony, tone cases, augments, prosody, and focus in Bantu -- 5. Shangaji paired tenses: Emergence of a cj/dj system? -- 6. The Kikuyu focus marker nĩ: Formal and functional similarities to the conjoint/disjoint alternation -- 7. Conjoint and disjoint verb forms in Gur? Evidence from Yom -- 8. The conjoint/disjoint distinction in the tonal morphology of Tswana -- 9. The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Símákonde -- 10. The conjoint/disjoint alternation and phonological phrasing in Bemba -- 11. Prosodic evidence for syntactic phrasing in Zulu -- 12. Prosody/syntax mismatches in the Zulu conjoint/disjoint alternation -- 13. The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Kinyarwanda -- 14. The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Kirundi (JD62): A case for its abolition -- 15. Conjoint/disjoint distinction and focus in Matengo (N13) -- Language index -- Subject index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This volume brings together descriptions and analyses of the conjoint/disjoint alternation, a typologically significant phenomenon found in many Bantu languages. The chapters provide in-depth documentation, comparative studies and theoretical analyses of the alternation from a range of Bantu languages, showing its crosslinguistic variation in constituent structure, morphology, prosody and information structure. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The conjoint |
| ISBN: | 3-11-063499-6 |
| 3-11-048842-6 | |
| 3-11-048838-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817107903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Trends in linguistics. . -Studies and monographs ; ; Volume 301.