Atindogbé / Grollemund Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages

Structure, Function and Semantics
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-046954-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 58, 303 Seiten

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]ISSN

This volume is a series of nine (9) contributions to our understanding of relativization strategies in eleven (11) languages of Cameroon spread into the seven (7) sub-branches of the Niger-Congo phylum: Ekoid, Mambiloid, Mamfe, Mbam, Narrow Bantu, Wide Grassfields, Yemne-Kimbi. As a productive strategy in the world's languages, and considering the evidence that the African language are either under-described, poorly described or not described at all, investigations into the forms, structures and functions of relative clauses and relativization start filling the gap of the absence of analytical descriptive works on the topic. The papers dwelt on the construction of relative clauses, their structure and constraints, their morphosyntactic properties, how they are used to give prominence to topics or participants that are thematic in a given discourse, and to mark the boundaries of units of text, and the formal characteristics of restrictive relative clause constructions. The findings generated so far constitute an endless tank for many fields of hyphenated linguistics including general linguistics, cognitive linguist, applied psycholinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics and pragmatics.

Gratien G. Atindogbé, University of Buea, Cameroon; Rebecca Grollemund, University of Missouri, USA.

Zielgruppe

African Linguistics, Typologists, Students in Linguistics, Librar

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atindogbé, Gratien Gualbert

Grollemund, Rebecca

Über Autor(innen)

Gratien G. Atindogbé, University of Buea, Cameroon; Rebecca Grollemund, University of Missouri, USA.

Gratien G. Atindogbé, University of Buea, Cameroon; Rebecca Grollemund, University of Missouri, USA.