Cross-Categorial Classification : : Nouns and Verbs in Eegimaa /

Cross-Categorial Classification : : Nouns and Verbs in Eegimaa / / Serge Sagna.

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...

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Sagna, Serge,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 60
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXII, 268 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Overt verb classification in spoken language: An introduction and a typology
  • 2 Nouns, verbs and polycategorial stems in Eegimaa
  • 3 The Eegimaa noun class/gender system
  • 4 Non-finite verbs and their classification
  • 5 Noun class semantics
  • 6 Semantics of overt verb classes
  • 7 Event delimitation: NCP alternations on non-finite verbs
  • 8 Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix A: Classification and location of Eegimaa
  • Appendix B: Phonological sketch of Eegimaa
  • Index

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