The Linker in the Khoisan Languages

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-092137-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax

The linker introduces ("links") a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives, the second object of a double object construction, the second object of a causative, instruments, subject matter arguments, and adverbs. This volume collects together Chris Collins's published work on the linker in the Khoisan languages. Here, Collins offers a systematic description of the linker in [lHoã, Ju 'hoan, N uu, and to a lesser extent !Xoõ and Xam.
For each language, Collins illustrates various uses of the linker, drawing attention to cross-linguistic generalizations as well as to variation between the languages. The work presented in this volume should be of interest to researchers working in a wide variety of syntactic frameworks on different languages
of the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Collins is Professor of Linguistics at New York University. He is a syntactician with an interest in African languages and has done fieldwork in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Togo.