33.2740, Books: Cross-Categorial Classification: Sagna

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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:24:31
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Cross-Categorial Classification: Sagna

 


Title: Cross-Categorial Classification 
Subtitle: Nouns and Verbs in Eegimaa 
Series Title: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110636321/html 


Author: Serge Sagna

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110636321 Pages: 290 Price: Europe EURO 133.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110595062 Pages: 290 Price: Europe EURO 133.95


Abstract:

Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified
using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual
phenomenon is found in some Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages, including Jóola
languages like Eegimaa, Fogny and Kwatay, where several different noun
class/gender prefixes (NCPs) are used to classify both nouns and verbs. In
this book, it is argued that these parallel morphosyntactic classifications in
the nominal domain and verbal domains also reflect parallel semantic
categorisation of entities and events. The main topics investigated in this
book are word class flexibility between nouns and verbs, non-finiteness, noun
class/gender (where morphological classes are analysed separately from
agreement classes) and the semantic principles underlying the categorisation
of entities and events. One of the central findings proposed in this book is
that instances of NCP alternations on non-finite verbs reflect strategies of
event delimitation. This book will be of interest to scholars investigating
parts-of-speech systems, finiteness, systems of nominal and verbal
classification, and linguistic categorization.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Niger-Congo


Written In: English  (eng)

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