8.1211, Books: Syntax

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New from Holland Academic Graphics:

OBJECT POSITIONS IN BENUE-KWA:
Papers from a workshop at Leiden University
edited by ROSE-MARIE DECHAINE & VICTOR MANFREDI
Pb. xii + 253 pp. ISBN 90-5569-031-7 [HIL Publications, 4.]
Publication date: August 1997

All papers were presented at the Niger-Congo Syntax & Semantics
Workshop, No. 7 (June 1994)

PDF sample article available on the web or on request

Price NLG 40 (approx. $20) excl. P&P
Information: <mail at hag.nl> or <http://www.hag.nl>

Abstract: Ever since Greenberg's 1963 classification of Niger-Congo --
the largest of Africa's four language families -- the relationship
between the Kwa and Benue-Congo branches has remained puzzling to
historical linguists. By contrast, the past decade has seen emerging
consensus on several aspects = of the grammatical typology of the
Benue-Kwa area, which includes the major west African languages
=C0k=E1n, =C8w=E8, Yor=F9b=E1, =C8do and =CC= gbo, as well as the
whole Bantu group of central, eastern and southern Africa.

The twelve papers explore the unity and diversity of Benue-Kwa by
investigating issues in the syntax of objects: verb serialization,
verb extensions, light verbs, object agreement, object shift and
double object= s.  Half of the contributors speak the languages they
study; most work in the principles-and-parameters tradition of
generative grammar, including very recent perspectives of minimalism
and antisymmetry. All the papers sugges= t innovations in these
theories to accommodate African data, much of which appears here for
the first time.
Holland Academic Graphics
PO Box 53292 2505 AG
The Hague The Netherlands
phone: +31 70 448 0203
fax: +31 70 448 0177
http://www.hag.nl






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