18.3130, TOC: Leiden Working Papers in Linguistics 4/2 (2007)

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Publisher:	Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
			http://www.lucl.leidenuniv.nl/ 			
			
Journal Title:  Leiden Working Papers in Linguistics 
Volume Number:  4 
Issue Number:  2 
Issue Date:  2007 


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Contents

Kofi Dorvlo: Serial Verb Constructions in Logba. Leiden Papers in
Linguistics 4.2, 1-16.

Abstract:  Serial Verb Constructions (henceforth SVCs) are said to be an
areal feature in West Africa (Dimmendaal 2001, Creisels 2000).
Nevertheless, it is hard to identify a common West African type of Serial
Verb Construction. There are striking differences across languages in
even those purported to belong to the same family, e.g. Kwa. In this
paper, I describe SVCs in Logba, a Na-Togo Kwa language spoken in the
hills near the border between Ghana and Togo. I examine the properties of
the expressions in terms of some of the constraints that have been
proposed in the literature â?" argument sharing (both subject and object)
and shared tense, aspect, mood and negation. Different functional types of
SVC such as comparative and directional are discussed as well.

*Anne-Christie Hellenthal: Modality properties of sentence type markers in
Sheko. Leiden Papers in Linguistics 4.2, 17-32.

Abstract: Sheko, one of the Omotic languages spoken in southwest Ethiopia,
employs a set of sentence type markers on final (main) verbs to
distinguish between interrogatives, imperatives, optatives, negatives and
realis and irrealis declaratives. Sheko joins a group of languages which
curb the tendency to treat the declarative as the unmarked sentence type.
A closer look at the realis and irrealis declarative markers reveals that
they can also be used to express stronger and weaker modality (e.g.
â??mustâ?? vs. â??shouldâ??).

* Erwin R. Komen: Chechen vowel inventory. Leiden Papers in Linguistics
4.2, 33-60.
Abstract: The Chechen language has a system of short and long vowels, and
also includes diphthongs. Previous analyses of the vowel inventory
diverged with respect to the number of phonemic diphthongs. In this paper
I propose a detailed re-analysis of all Chechen vowel phonemes, paying
special attention to the differences between the previous inventory
analyses. The first question is whether the glides [w] and [j] when
preceded by a vowel should be regarded as vowels or consonants. In this
paper I conclude that they should be interpreted as vowels. The second
question is whether the difference between short and long vowel
diphthongs that start with a high vowel is phonemic or not. In this paper
I show that the difference is phonemic in principle. The third question
concerns the status of [æ]. I conclude that it is not a separate
phoneme. 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax
                     General Linguistics





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