A Grammar of Fongbe

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-3-11-017360-4
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 582 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1155 g

Reihe: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars, Academic Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lefebvre, Claire

Brousseau, Anne-Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Über Autor(innen)

Claire Lefebvre is Professor at the University of Québec, Canada. Anne-Marie Brousseau is Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada.