The Morphosyntax of Complement-Head Sequences
Clause Structure and Word Order Patterns in Kwa
Published on 20. November 2003
388 pages
978-0-19-803625-8 (ISBN)
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This is the first book on the syntax of a Niger-Conger language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a native speaker of one of the languages (Gungbe) discussed, analyzes different aspects of the syntax of the "Kwa" language group. Aboh also suggests how grammatical pictures for these languages can shed some light on Universal Grammar in general.
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Enoch Olade Aboh
The Morphosyntax of Complement-Head Sequences
Clause Structure and Word Order Patterns in Kwa
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Purpose and organization of the book
- 1.2 Theoretical background
- 2 Outline of the Grammar of Gbe
- 2.1 On the term Gbe
- 2.2 The Gbe cluster
- 2.3 Notes on tones in the syntax of Gbe
- 2.4 Word order and clause structure
- 2.5 More on the SOV versus SVO asymmetry
- 2.6. Conclusion
- 3 The Syntax of Noun Phrases
- 3.1 The Gungbe D-system and the split-D hypothesis
- 3.2 The nominal inflectional domain
- 3.3 DP licensing and snowballing movement
- 3.4 Conclusion
- Appendix: On the Gungbe 'Fake Postpositions'
- 4 The Syntax of Pronouns
- 4.1 Theoretical background
- 4.2 The Gungbe personal pronouns
- 4.3 Conclusion
- 5 Tense, Aspect, and Mood: The Preverbal Markers
- 5.1 Setting the stage
- 5.2 The Gungbe IP-markers
- 5.3 The Gungbe CP-markers: Conjunction ní and injunctive ní
- 5.4 Conclusion
- 6 Object Shift and Verb Movement
- 6.1 The OV order in imperfective and related constructions
- 6.2 The internal structure of OV constructions
- 6.3 The VO order and the non-imperfective clauses
- 6.4 Conclusion
- 7 Focus and Wh Constructions
- 1. Focus
- 2. Wh-questions in Gungbe
- 3. Conclusion
- 8 Argument Topics and Yes-No Questions
- 8.1 Argument topics in Gungbe
- 8.2 Yes-no questions: On the sentence-final CP-markers
- 8.3 Conclusion
- Appendix: Some speculations about the so-called clausal determiners
- 9 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Name Index
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