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

2018
183 pp.
1 diagram, 7 tables, numerous charts
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
370 g
Paperback
€ 39.80

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CONTENTS

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 (Adamawa) 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

Under these links you will find publications by the contributors, studies of transitivity in African languages and further descriptions of the languages / language families analyzed here:

Accompanying material:

• Locative and Non-locative in Kiswahili Bantu (ISBN 978-3-89645-713-4)
• Logophoricity, Pronouns, and Pronominals in African Languages (ISBN 978-3-89645-367-9)
• Objects and Complements in Kiswahili Clauses (ISBN 978-3-89645-560-4)
• Stress and Tone – The African Experience (ISBN 978-3-89645-017-3)
• Tone Systems in African Languages (ISBN 978-3-89645-019-7)
• Transitivity in Swahili (ISBN 978-3-927620-37-7)
• Transitivität und Verbvalenz im Swahili (ISBN 978-3-89645-712-7)

Cross-reference:

• A Grammatical Sketch of Herero (Otjiherero) (ISBN 978-3-89645-044-9)
• A Tima-English Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-901-5)
• Aspects of Co- and Subordination (ISBN 978-3-89645-888-9)
• Aspekte adverbialer Subordination im Hausa, Fulfulde und Kanuri (ISBN 978-3-89645-469-0)
• Copy Pronouns (ISBN 978-3-89645-424-9)
• Khoisan Languages and Linguistics – 4th Symposium 2011 (ISBN 978-3-89645-880-3)
• Lexikalische Kategorien und grammatische Strukturen im Tigemaxo (Bozo, Mande) (ISBN 978-3-89645-070-8)
• Proceedings of the 6th WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009 (ISBN 978-3-89645-199-6)
• The Fur Verb and its Context (ISBN 978-3-89645-663-2)
• When Languages Meet (ISBN 978-3-89645-257-3)

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