Transitivity in African Languages

Edited by: Rose-Juliet Anyanwu. With an introduction by: Rose-Juliet Anyanwu. With contributions by: Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Denis Creissels, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Djibril Dramé, Anne-Maria Fehn, Raimund Kastenholz, Lutz Marten, Maarten Mous, Tatiana Nikitina, Gertrud Schneider-Blum, John R. Watters, Georg Ziegelmeyer.

Series: FAB Frankfurt African Studies Bulletin Year 2014, Volume 26

CONTENTS

Rose-Juliet Anyanwu:
Preface

Rose-Juliet Anyanwu:
Inherent complements and transitivity in five Benue-Congo languages

Denis Creissels / Djibril Dramé:
Transitivity and incorporation in Soninke

Anne-Maria Fehn:
Transitivity in Ts'ixa – With special reference to semantically ditransitive constructions

Raimund Kastenholz:
Tonal contrast and transitivity in Pere verbs

Lutz Marten / Maarten Mous:
Non-valency-changing valency-changing derivations

Tatiana Nikitina:
Transitivity in Wan – An overview of constructions and verb classes

Gerrit J. Dimmendaal / Gertrud Schneider-Blum:
Transitivity in Tima

John R. Watters:
The expression of valency changes in Ekoid-Mbe

Georg Ziegelmeyer:
A note on transitivity in Gashua Bade

Following the links below, you will find further analyses of transitivity in African languages:

Accompanying material:

• Locative and Non-locative in Kiswahili Bantu (ISBN 978-3-89645-713-4)
• Objects and Complements in Kiswahili Clauses (ISBN 978-3-89645-560-4)
• Transitivity in Swahili (ISBN 978-3-927620-37-7)
• Transitivität und Verbvalenz im Swahili (ISBN 978-3-89645-712-7)

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