Aspects of Co- and Subordination

Case Studies from African, Slavonic, and Turkic Languages

Edited by: Georg Ziegelmeyer, Norbert Cyffer. With an introduction by: Georg Ziegelmeyer, Norbert Cyffer. With contributions by: Ari Awagana, Juliane Besters-Dilger, Dmitry Bondarev, Raymond Boyd, Norbert Cyffer, Andrew Haruna, Philip J. Jaggar †, Lars Johanson, Maarten Kossmann, Doris Löhr, H. Ekkehard Wolff, Georg Ziegelmeyer, Petr Zima †.

Series: TIAS Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies Volume 18

2010
6 pp. Roman, 289 pp.
3 colour facsimile reproductions, numerous tables and charts
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
580 g
Paperback
€ 69.80

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In this volume, linguists take on issues of co- and subordination in sentence structures. On the one hand these structures are defined by more or less predetermined rules in individual languages. Therefore, the rules may diverge from language to language. On the other hand, they are subject to general and ongoing processes of linguistic change. This may result in common concepts of co- and subordination patterns. It is also observed that in syntax some grammatical categories evolved earlier and others later.

The conceptualization of innovated categories also differs in languages. Intra-linguistic, areal, as well as universal developments are ascertained. Aspects of a Sprachbund may also come in. It can be generally concluded that contact-induced language change is a prominent feature in several co- and subordination strategies.

The study focuses principally on languages and language families in the wider West African Lake Chad region, but, in order to incorporate universal typological issues, contributions from the Turkic and Slavonic languages were included.

CONTENTS

Georg Ziegelmeyer / Norbert Cyffer: Introduction

Lars Johanson: Three kinds of clause junctors

Juliane Besters-Dilger: Co- and subordination expressing causality in Slavonic languages

H. Ekkehard Wolff: Clause linking in some Central-Chadic languages

Philip J. Jaggar: Relational DA as a preposition, coordinator, and subordinator in Hausa – Polysemy or homophony?

Petr Zima: Sprachbund and lingua franca as dynamic features – DA/NDA beyond Hausa

Doris Löhr: Coding temporal subordination in Malgwa

Georg Ziegelmeyer: Retention and innovation – On adverbial subordination in Gashua Bade

Andrew Haruna: Co- and subordination in Gurdun

Ari Awagana: Coordination et subordination en buduma

Norbert Cyffer: GA, RO & Co – Strategies of complementation and subordination in Kanuri

Dmitry Bondarev: Complex clauses in Old Kanembu/LG

Maarten Kossmann: On relative clauses in Northern Songhay – Tuareg and Songhay components

Raymond Boyd: Subordination from a Chamba-Daka perspective

 

Under these links you will find further publications of the contributors:

Accompanying material:

• Aspekte adverbialer Subordination im Hausa, Fulfulde und Kanuri (ISBN 978-3-89645-469-0)
• Berber Loanwords in Hausa (ISBN 978-3-89645-391-4)
• Chadic and Hausa Linguistics (ISBN 978-3-89645-043-2)
• Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère (ISBN 978-3-89645-035-7)
• Historical Perspectives on Chamba Daka (ISBN 978-3-927620-47-6)
• Kanuri, Borno and Beyond (ISBN 978-3-89645-892-6)
• Lexique Dendi (Songhay) (ISBN 978-3-927620-45-2)
• The Blacksmiths of Kano City (ISBN 978-3-927620-43-8)
• The Lamang Language and Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-294-8)
• When Languages Meet (ISBN 978-3-89645-257-3)

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