A Grammar of Fongbe / / Anne-Marie Brousseau, Claire Lefebvre.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Lefebvre, Claire,; Brousseau, Anne-Marie,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (582 p.)
• Other title: I-XXIV --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Overview of the phonology --; Part I Functional categories --; 3. Functional categories involved in the nominal structure --; 4. Pronominal forms --; 5. Tense, mood and aspect --; 6. Functional categories involved in the structure of the clause --; 7. Clause structures --; Part II Lexical categories --; 8. Morphology --; 9. Compounds --; 10. Verbs --; 11. Prepositions and postpositions --; 12. Modifiers --; Part III The major syntactic constructions of the language --; 13. Serial verbs --; 14. The double object construction --; 15. The definite determiner in simple clauses --; 16. The so-called verb-doubling phenomena --; Appendices --; Appendix I: Swadesh list --; Appendix II: Text --; Appendix III: Additional data on d̨ɔ́ introducing complements of verbs of the SAY-class --; Appendix IV: A sample of idiomatic verbal expressions --; References --; Index of authors --; Index of subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110880182; 9783110238570; 9783110238501; 9783110636246; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 0933-7636
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110880182
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anne-Marie Brousseau, Claire Lefebvre.

This book is a reference grammar of Fongbe, a language which is part of the Gbe dialect cluster. It is spoken mainly in the former kingdom of Dahomey, which today comprises the southern areas of Benin and Togo. This book has three objectives: First, its main purpose is to provide a thorough description of the grammar of Fongbe. Second, this book provides language-specific syntactic tests which were developed in the course of this research. Finally, we provide the reader with the most exhaustive list possible of references on Fongbe, and on the Gbe languages in general. This book thus attempts to represent a "state of the art" of the language itself, and of the analyses proposed to account for its particular constructions. This book is of particular interest to Africanists, scholars interested in comparative linguistics or in the reconstruction of language families, and creolists who work on the languages spoken in the Caribbean area.