30.1464, Books: Possessive constructions in Tongugbe, an Ewe dialect: Kpoglu

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Subject: 30.1464, Books: Possessive constructions in Tongugbe, an Ewe dialect: Kpoglu

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Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:56:31
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Possessive constructions in Tongugbe, an Ewe dialect: Kpoglu

 


Title: Possessive constructions in Tongugbe, an Ewe dialect 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/possessive-constructions-in-tongugbe-an-ewe-dialect 


Author: Promise Dodzi Kpoglu

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933189 Pages: 375 Price: Europe EURO 38.00


Abstract:

This book concerns the description of possessive constructions in Tɔŋúgbe, one
of the many dialects of the Ewe language, which is spoken in south-eastern
Ghana, along the lower basins of the Volta River. It presents a detailed
description of the constructions and their meanings; and explores the
relationship that exists between clausal possessive constructions, locative
and existential constructions. In addition to this, the work presents a first
outline grammar of Tɔŋúgbe.

The preliminary findings on the duration contrast in tones reveal a change in
progress; the rich demonstrative paradigm presents interesting data for
analysis; attributive possessive constructions support the understanding that
linguistic structures are functionally motivated; external possessor
constructions cast the assumption that part-whole relations are given special
treatment in grammar in a comparative light; and relationships between clausal
possessive constructions, locative constructions and existential constructions
support the view that synchronically, the different constructions are not
reducible to a single structure.

Possessive constructions in Tongugbe, an Ewe dialect, is of interest not only
to specialists of African languages working on Ewe, Gbe and Kwa languages, but
also to dialectologists, typologists and linguists interested in functional
approaches to understanding micro-syntactic variations.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Ewe (ewe)


Written In: English  (eng)

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