Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Cyffer, Norbert (HerausgeberIn), Ebermann, Erwin (BerichterstatterIn), Ziegelmeyer, Georg (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam, Philadelphia John Benjamins c 2009
Schriftenreihe:Typological studies in language 87
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:VI, 368 S.
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ISBN:9789027206688
978-90-272-0668-8