Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond
Published on 27. August 2009
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-90-272-0668-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following typological features have been identified to be prominent in our region: conflict or even incompatibility between negation and focus, use of other indirect means of negating non-indicative mood (covered under the term 'Prohibitive'), different negation patterns in different Tense-Aspect-Moods (e.g. Imperfective vs. Perfective), lack of negative indefinites, and disjunctive negative marking (often referred to as 'double negation'). The articles presented here show that areal factors have played a significant role in the development of negation strategies in the languages of West Africa and beyond. On the other hand genetic factors seem to be less prominent.
Reviews / Votes
This volume constitutes an important contribution to African linguistics which will contribute to a better understanding of negation in other African languages and also to the treatment of areal features. -- Helga Pasch, University of Cologne, in Afrikanistik Online 2010More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
830 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0668-8 (9789027206688)
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Norbert Cyffer | Erwin Ebermann | Georg Ziegelmeyer
Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond
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Content
1. Introduction (by Cyffer, Norbert); 2. Negation of non-indicative mood in Hausa, Fulfulde and Kanuri (by Ziegelmeyer, Georg); 3. The impact of clause types and focus control, aspect, modality, and referentiality on negation in Lamang and Hdi (Central Chadic) (by Wolff, H. Ekkehard); 4. Quantification and polarity: Negative Adverbial Intensifiers ('never ever', 'not at all', etc.) in Hausa (by Jaggar, Philip J.); 5. Negation patterns in Kanuri (by Cyffer, Norbert); 6. Songhay verbal negation in its dialectal and areal context (by Zima, Petr); 7. Negation in Jukun (by Storch, Anne); 8. Negation marking in Igbo (by Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri); 9. Aspects of discontinuous negation in Santome (by Hagemeijer, Tjerk); 10. Negation in Gur: Genetic, areal and unique features (by Winkelmann, Kerstin); 11. Double negation-marking: A case of contact-induced grammaticalization in West Africa? (by Beyer, Klaus); 12. Negation in South Mande (by Vydrine, Valentin); 13. From double negation to portmanteau: Comparative sentence negation in Northern Samo (by Ebermann, Erwin); 14. The system of negation in Berber (by Mettouchi, Amina); 15. Verb-object-negative order in central Africa (by Dryer, Matthew S.); 16. Language index; 17. Name index; 18. Subject index