Author: Sheikh Umarr Kamarah
Publisher:
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Category : Temne language
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Author: William A. A. Wilson
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Atlantic is one of the most diversified and most problematic Niger-Congo families as far as evidence for a monogenetic origin is concerned. Moreover, the group remains poorly known. Besides well-studied languages such as Fula, Wolof and Serer some sixty lesser known languages of Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are currently believed to belong to Atlantic. Many of these languages are not yet documented, and some never will - they disappeared some decades ago or are just on the verge of extinction. This book provides an overview of Atlantic south of the Wolof, Serer and Fula-speaking regions. The sections on the various Atlantic languages present information on phonology, morphology and basic syntacticpatterns by using General Linguistic Theory. Lexical material is presented in comparative wordlists. All data stem from the author's own fieldwork in the 1950s and 1960s in Guinea Bissau and Guinea.

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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Publisher: African Studies Association
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Keith Snider
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110869373
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Harold Torrence
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027255814
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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This volume investigates the clausal syntax of Wolof, an understudied Atlantic language of Senegal. The goals of the work are descriptive, analytical, and comparative, with a focus on the structure of the left periphery and left peripheral phenomena. The book includes detailed examination of the morpho?syntax of wh?questions, successive cyclicity, subject marking, relative clauses, topic/focus articulation, and complementizer agreement. Novel data from Wolof is used to evaluate and extend theoretical proposals concerning the structure of the Complementizer Phrase (CP) and Tense Phrase (TP). It is argued that Wolof provides evidence for the promotion analysis of relative clauses, an exploded CP and TP, and for analyses that treat relative clauses as composed of a determiner with a CP complement. It is further argued that Wolof has a set of silent wh?expressions and these are compared to superficially similar constructions in colloquial German, Bavarian, Dutch, and Norwegian. The book also presents a comparison of complementizer agreement across a number of related and unrelated languages. Data from Indo?European (Germanic varieties, French, Irish), Niger?Congo (Atlantic, Bantu, Gur), and Semitic (Arabic) languages put the Wolof phenomena in a larger typological context by showing the range of variation in complementizer agreement systems."

Author: Mohamed Sorie Yillah
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783862880485
Category : Temne language
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Rainer Vossen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199609896
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1104

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Une source inconnue indique : "This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. It covers a wide range of topics, from grammatical sketches of individual languages to sociocultural and extralinguistic issues."