Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages: Structure, Function and Semantics - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110467615 ISBN 13 : 9783110467611

Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2017

Synopsis

This volume is a series of nine (9) contributions to our understanding of relativization strategies in eleven (11) languages of Cameroon spread into the seven (7) sub-branches of the Niger-Congo phylum: Ekoid, Mambiloid, Mamfe, Mbam, Narrow Bantu, Wide Grassfields, Yemne-Kimbi. As a productive strategy in the world's languages, and considering the evidence that the African language are either under-described, poorly described or not described at all, investigations into the forms, structures and functions of relative clauses and relativization start filling the gap of the absence of analytical descriptive works on the topic. The papers dwelt on the construction of relative clauses, their structure and constraints, their morphosyntactic properties, how they are used to give prominence to topics or participants that are thematic in a given discourse, and to mark the boundaries of units of text, and the formal characteristics of restrictive relative clause constructions. The findings generated so far constitute an endless tank for many fields of hyphenated linguistics including general linguistics, cognitive linguist, applied psycholinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics and pragmatics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gratien G. Atindogbé, University of Buea, Cameroon; Rebecca Grollemund, University of Missouri, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110467615
• ISBN 13: 9783110467611
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 303
• Éditeur: Atindogbé Gratien Gualbert, Grollemund Rebecca
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