Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond / edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann, Georg Ziegelmeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cyffer, Norbert.

Ebermann, Erwin, 1953-

Ziegelmeyer, Georg.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 87.

Typological studies in language ; v. 87

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African languages--Africa, West--Negatives.

African languages.

Africa, West--Languages--Negatives.

Africa, West.

Physical Description:

vi, 368 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Crosslinguistically, SVO languages most commonly place negative particles before the verb, employing SNegVO order. This paper documents an area in central Africa which deviates from this pattern, in which the negative follows the verb, typically occurring at the end of the clause, in SVONeg order. The languages in which this order is found do not form a natural class genetically, since they belong to three different families: Niger-Congo (including Adamawa-Ubangian, Platoid, northern Bantoid among others), Nilo-Saharan (especially Bongo-Bagirmi, but also Kresh and a few other groups), and Afro-Asiatic (specifically Chadic, but found widely throughout Chadic). The area stretches from Nigeria across to the Central African Republic and down into the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612312267

9781282312265

128231226X

9789027289391

9027289395

OCLC:

492092495