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The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from 'exotic' languages rather than English? Second, how can the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in different grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although RRG took linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning, African languages have been underrepresented in the development of the theory. Given the sheer number African languages deserve a wider coverage in a syntactic theory which takes linguistic diversity seriously. The volume is intended to fill this gap and comprises a selection of papers which investigate different aspects related to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different African languages. This includes: argument doubling and dislocation in iziZulu, complex referential phrases in Gĩkũyũ, serial verb constructions in Igbo, locative complements in Hausa and Zarma Chiine and focus constructions in Emai. The papers will extent the current RRG approach to new languages and phenomena.
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The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from 'exotic' languages rather than English? Second, how can the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in different grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although RRG took linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning, African languages have been underrepresented in the development of the theory. Given the sheer number African languages deserve a wider coverage in a syntactic theory which takes linguistic diversity seriously. The volume is intended to fill this gap and comprises a selection of papers which investigate different aspects related to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different African languages. This includes: argument doubling and dislocation in iziZulu, complex referential phrases in Gĩkũyũ, serial verb constructions in Igbo, locative complements in Hausa and Zarma Chiine and focus constructions in Emai. The papers will extent the current RRG approach to new languages and phenomena.
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The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from 'exotic' languages rather than English? Second, how can the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in different grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although RRG took linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning, African languages have been underrepresented in the development of the theory. Given the sheer number African languages deserve a wider coverage in a syntactic theory which takes linguistic diversity seriously. The volume is intended to fill this gap and comprises a selection of papers which investigate different aspects related to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different African languages. This includes: argument doubling and dislocation in iziZulu, complex referential phrases in Gĩkũyũ, serial verb constructions in Igbo, locative complements in Hausa and Zarma Chiine and focus constructions in Emai. The papers will extent the current RRG approach to new languages and phenomena.
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The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from ‘exotic’ languages rather than English? Second, how can the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in different grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although RRG took linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning, African languages have been underrepresented in the development of the theory. Given the sheer number African languages deserve a wider coverage in a syntactic theory which takes linguistic diversity seriously. The volume is intended to fill this gap and comprises a selection of papers which investigate different aspects related to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different African languages. This includes: argument doubling and dislocation in iziZulu, complex referential phrases in Gĩkũyũ, serial verb constructions in Igbo, locative complements in Hausa and Zarma Chiine and focus constructions in Emai. The papers will extent the current RRG approach to new languages and phenomena.
African languages. --- Argument (linguistics). --- Grammar. --- Information structure. --- African languages --- Social aspects.
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The papers collected in this book cover contemporary and original research on semantic and grammatical issues of nouns and noun phrases, verbs and sentences, and aspects of the combination of nouns and verbs, in a great variety of languages. A special focus is put on noun types, tense and aspect semantics, granularity of verb meaning, and subcompositionality. The investigated languages and language groups include Austronesian, East Asian, Slavic, German, English, Hungarian and Lakhota. The collection provided in this book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students specialising in the fields of semantics, morphology, syntax, typology, and cognitive sciences.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. --- Adrian Czardybon. --- Anita Mittwoch. --- Byoong-Rae Ryu. --- Claire Moyse-Faurie. --- Dieter Wunderlich. --- Ekkehard König. --- Gerhard Schurz. --- Grammar. --- Hana Filip. --- Hungarian. --- Japanese. --- Jens Fleischhauer. --- Korean. --- Lakhota. --- Laura Kallmeyer. --- Leon Stassen. --- Michael Herwig. --- Nouns. --- Peter Indefrey. --- Pragmatic possession. --- Present Perfect Puzzle. --- Ralf Naumann. --- Robert D. van Valin. --- SFB 991. --- Sebastian Löbner. --- Semantik. --- Tagalog. --- Teop. --- Thomas Gamerschlag. --- Ulrike Mosel. --- Verbs. --- Volker Gast. --- Wiebke Petersen. --- Wilhelm Geuder. --- black language. --- case marker. --- comparative lexicology. --- corpus-linguistic. --- double nominative. --- frame account. --- frame theory. --- frame. --- noun class. --- noun-types. --- objective conjugation. --- phase quantification. --- phase-theoretical account. --- psycho-linguistic. --- referentiality. --- talicity. --- telic incremental theme predications. --- type shifts. --- white language.
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The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center `The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. --- Avatime. --- Caleb Everett. --- Carlos Periñán-Pascual. --- DFG. --- Dejan Matic. --- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. --- Eunkyung Yi. --- FunGramKB Grammaticon. --- Gerhard Schurz. --- Gisa Rauh. --- Hana Filip. --- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. --- Jean-Pierre König. --- Jeremy Hammond. --- John Peterson. --- Jürgen Bohnemeyer. --- Kabardian Involuntative. --- LD. --- Laura Kallmeyer. --- Lindsay K. Butler. --- Murik-Kopar. --- Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. --- Noun Phrase Structure. --- Peter Indefrey. --- RRG. --- Ranko Matasovic. --- Ricardo Mairal. --- Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. --- SFB 991. --- Saskia van Putten. --- Sebastian Löbner. --- Sensory Motor Concepts in Language & Cognition. --- Sonderforschungsbereich 991. --- T. Florian Jaeger. --- Tagalog. --- Tundra Yukaghir. --- Whitesands. --- William A. Foley. --- constructional schemata. --- degree expressions. --- diasystematic approach. --- integrated dislocation. --- left Dislocation. --- lexical representation of verbs. --- linguistic categories. --- linguistic theory. --- lingustic theory. --- multilectalism. --- multilingualism. --- non-integrated dislocation. --- register variation. --- syntactically based relativistic effects. --- syntax-semantics interface. --- syntax. --- verb meaning. --- volition in Grammar. --- yacatec maya.
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