34.1504, Books: African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective: Fleischhauer (ed.)

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Date: 04-May-2023
From: Anne Sokoll [anne.sokoll at degruyter.com]
Subject: African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective


Title: African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective
Subtitle: Studies on the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
                https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110795295/html

editor: Jens Fleischhauer
Paperback: ISBN: 9783110794977 Pages: 201 Price: ----  49,95
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110795295 Pages: 201 Price: ----  Open Access
Abstract:

The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference
Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of
syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions:
First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from
‘exotic’ languages rather than English? Second, how can the
interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in different
grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although RRG took
linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning, African
languages have been underrepresented in the development of the theory.
Given the sheer number African languages deserve a wider coverage in a
syntactic theory which takes linguistic diversity seriously. The
volume is intended to fill this gap and comprises a selection of
papers which investigate different aspects related to the
syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different African languages.
This includes: argument doubling and dislocation in iziZulu, complex
referential phrases in Gĩkũyũ, serial verb constructions in Igbo,
locative complements in Hausa and Zarma Chiine and focus constructions
in Emai. The papers will extent the current RRG approach to new
languages and phenomena.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): African Unclassified

Areal Regions: African

Written In: English (eng)

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