The Grammar of Verbs and their Arguments

A Cross-linguistic Perspective

Edited by: James Essegbey, Dalina Kallulli, Adams Bodomo. With an introduction by: James Essegbey, Dalina Kallulli, Adams Bodomo. With contributions by: Hasiyatu Abubakari, Felix Ameka, Dorothee Beermann, Adams Bodomo, James Essegbey, Lars Hellan, Dalina Kallulli, Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu †. Series edited by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Bernd Heine.

Series: GA Grammatical Analyses of African Languages Volume 59

The papers in this volume are part of papers presented at the International Workshop on Verbs and Their Arguments at the University of Vienna in November 2015. The workshop was organized in honor of Prof. Lars Hellan who has either trained the contributors in the analysis of verbs and their arguments, or worked with them on a project in that field.

Some of the chapters deal with tense, aspect, modality and polarity categories of verbs. Others explore verb semantics, argument structure, argument realization, serial verb constructions, predicate-cleft constructions, object agreement and issues related to syntax-semantics interface.

CONTENTS

James Essegbey / Dalina Kallulli / Adams Bodomo: Introduction

Dorothee Beermann: Tense, Modality and Aspect in Krio – A corpus based study

Mary Esther Dakubu: TAMP Marking in Proto-Kwa – What can we reconstruct?

Felix Ameka: Verb constructions at the syntax-semantics interface

James Essegbey: Cutting across the Akan-Gbe divide

Adams Bodomo: A Dagaare pandora’s box – The syntax of verb serialization in an oral literature context

Hasiyatu Abubakari: Predicate Cleft Constructions in Kúsáàl

Dalina Kallulli: On a true universal – From clitic doubling in Albanian to object agreement in Bantu

Lars Hellan: Situations in Grammar


Under this link you will find further Festschriften and  obituary collections for renowned scholars published in our programme.

Under these links yo will find further studies focusing on verbs and verbal morphology in African languages:

Accompanying material:

• A Grammar of Dagik (ISBN 978-3-89645-566-6)
• Directionality in Grammar and Discourse (ISBN 978-3-89645-899-5)
• 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)
• Sprachtypologie, TAM-Systeme und historische Syntax im Manding (West-Mande) (ISBN 978-3-89645-077-7)
• The Nominal and Verbal Morphology of Tima (ISBN 978-3-89645-559-8)
• Transitivität und Verbvalenz im Swahili (ISBN 978-3-89645-712-7)
• 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:

• Afrikanische Sprachen im Fokus (ISBN 978-3-89645-196-5)
• Converbs, Medial Verbs, Clause Chaining and Related Issues (ISBN 978-3-89645-719-6)
• Copy Pronouns (ISBN 978-3-89645-424-9)
• Issues in African Languages and Linguistics (ISBN 978-3-89645-365-5)

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