28.1027, Books: The (Anti-)Causative Alternation in Kikongo: Fernando

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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:47:41
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: The (Anti-)Causative Alternation in Kikongo: Fernando

Title: The (Anti-)Causative Alternation in Kikongo 
Subtitle: The Lexical Semantic and Syntax Properties of Change of State and Change of
Location Verbs 
Series Title: Languages of the World 53  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LW-53-The-Anti-Causative-Alternation-in-Kikongo/en 

Author: Mbiavanga Fernando

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862887552 Pages: 328 Price: Europe EURO 148.00

Abstract:

This book investigates the problem of how the lexical-semantic, aspectual
(event structure) and syntactic properties exemplified in the causative and
anticausative sentences in Kikongo can be accounted for by invoking different
combinations of the Voice, vCAUS, and Root nodes in terms of the decomposition
approach to the analysis of causative and anticausative alternation. In so
doing, the book explores the nature of the interaction and interdependence of
lexical semantic verb class properties, aspectual verb class properties, and
the syntactic encoding of the external argument of verbs in the causative and
anticausative alternation constructions. Certainly, the construal of
transitivity in Kikongo constitutes a central issue in the investigation in
relation to the problem of argument alternation. 

Kikongo is a cross-boarder Bantu language spoken in Angola, DRC, Congo
Brazzaville, and Gabon, zoned as H with unit 10 in Guthrie’s (1967-71)
referential classification. In Angola Kikongo has many dialects, thus, data
used in this book is from Kizombo, a dialect classified as 16h, as spoken in
Damba and the Maquela do Zombo districts in the province of Uige. The Kizombo
dialect is estimated to be spoken by 25% of the total population of the
province of Uige. Owing to the exocentric language policy adopted by the local
authorities in the earlier years of independence, Kikongo, similar to other
African languages of Angola, is not sufficiently documented. Thus little
literature in or about Kikongo is available.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Koongo (kng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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