Converbs, Medial Verbs, Clause Chaining and Related Issues

Edited by: Sascha Völlmin, Azeb Amha, Christian J. Rapold, Silvia Zaugg-Coretti. With contributions by: Azeb Amha, Giorgio Banti, Isabelle Bril, Christian J. Rapold, Chris H. Reintges, Aone van Engelenhoven, Sascha Völlmin, Andreas Wetter, Silvia Zaugg-Coretti.

Series: FAB Frankfurt African Studies Bulletin Year 2007, Volume 19

CONTENTS

Christian J. Rapold: Defining converbs ten years on – a hitchhikers’ guide

Giorgio Banti: Remarks on the typology of converbs and their functional equivalents in East Cushitic

Sascha Völlmin: The so-called converbs in Gumer (Gurage)

Andreas Wetter: Converbs in Argobba

Azeb Amha: The converb in Wolaitta – form and functions

Silvia Zaugg-Coretti: Switch-reference in Yemsa (Omotic, Ethiopia)

Chris H. Reintges: A descriptive analysis of the Coptic conjunctive conjugation

Aone van Engelenhoven: Verb serialization in Fataluku – the case of ‘take’

Isabelle Bril: Coordination, information hierarchy and subordination in some Austronesian languages

Under these links you will find a learner's grammar of Coptic, publications by the contributors and further studies of serial verb constructions in African languages:

Accompanying material:

• A Grammar of Kordofanian Julut (ISBN 978-3-89645-771-4)
• Khoisan Languages and Linguistics – 1st Symposium 2003 (ISBN 978-3-89645-864-3)
• Locative and Non-locative in Kiswahili Bantu (ISBN 978-3-89645-713-4)
• Lucazi Grammar (ISBN 978-3-89645-038-8)
• Objects and Complements in Kiswahili Clauses (ISBN 978-3-89645-560-4)
• The Grammar of Verbs and their Arguments (ISBN 978-3-89645-769-1)
• The Nominal and Verbal Morphology of Tima (ISBN 978-3-89645-559-8)
• Verbal Serialisation in Bezen (Southern Jukunoid) (ISBN 978-3-89645-764-6)
• Verbal Serialisation in Isu (West Ring) (ISBN 978-3-89645-555-0)

Cross-reference:

• Coptic Egyptian (Sahidic Dialect) (ISBN 978-3-89645-570-3)
• Das Argobba (ISBN 978-3-89645-554-3)
• Deictics, Copula, and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area (ISBN 978-3-89645-293-1)
• Language Contact and Language Change in Ethiopia (ISBN 978-3-89645-258-0)

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