33.3447, Books: Barayin Morphosyntax: Lovestrand

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Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:39:46
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: Barayin Morphosyntax: Lovestrand

 


Title: Barayin Morphosyntax 
Subtitle: A Lexical-Functional Approach 
Series Title: Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/barayin-morphosyntax-9780198851158?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Joseph Lovestrand

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198851158 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 85


Abstract:

This volume offers a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) analysis of the
morphosyntax of Barayin, a Chadic language spoken by about 6000 people in the
Guera region of Chad. The core chapters of the book draw on rich empirical
data to provide analyses of the basic clause, noun phrases, verb phrases, and
serial verb constructions. The version of LFG adopted here includes two recent
innovations: the first is minimal c-structure, which results in simpler phrase
structure representations; the second is the assumption that glue semantics
accounts for argument selection, rejecting the need for a level of a-structure
or for Completeness and Coherence in f-structure. Argument sharing in serial
verb constructions can thus be modeled in a connected s-structure. This method
of modeling semantic composition in complex predicates is extended to
directional and associated motion complex predicates in Choctaw and Wambaya,
removing the need to appeal to a special mechanism to unite semantic forms in
such constructions.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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