28.4659, Books: Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages: Atindogbé, Grollemund (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:11:16
From: Pablo Dominguez Andersen [pablo.dominguez at degruyter.com]
Subject: Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages: Atindogbé, Grollemund (eds.)

 


Title: Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages 
Subtitle: Structure, Function and Semantics 
Series Title: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/458007?format=G 


Editor: Gratien Gualbert Atindogbé
Editor: Rebecca Grollemund

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110467611 Pages: 287 Price: U.S. $ 149.99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Niger-Congo


Written In: English  (eng)

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