A Grammar of Fongbe

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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.

 

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1 Introduction
1
12 Aims and limitations of this book
3
13 Overview of the major features of the language
5
14 Sources of data on the language
9
15 Database
10
17 List of abbreviations
11
2 Overview of the phonology
15
22 Syllable structures
18
10 Verbs
235
102 Types of argument structures
240
103 The unergativeunaccusative distinction
256
104 Argument alternations
260
105 The syntactic properties of verbs
275
106 Aspectual verbs
287
107 Modal verbs
288
108 Conclusion
294

23 Tones
20
24 Phonological processes
25
25 Summary
29
Part I Functional categories
35
3 Functional categories involved in the nominal structure
37
32 The plural marker
38
33 The indefinite determiner
39
34 Bare NPs
40
35 Demonstrative determiners
41
36 Case markers
44
37 Other constituents occurring in the nominal structure
50
38 Can NPs be conjoined?
56
39 Conclusion
57
4 Pronominal forms
61
42 Pronominal clitics
63
43 Expletives
66
44 Possessive forms
67
45 Whwords and Whphrases
72
46 The d?éè anaphor
74
47 The logophoric pronoun émì
78
48 Conclusion
82
5 Tense mood and aspect
85
52 The interpretation of bare sentences
86
53 Tense mood and aspect markers
89
54 Complex tenses
102
55 Summary of tests used to distinguish between the four aspectual classes in Fongbe
107
56 The imperative constructions
109
57 Conclusion
110
6 Functional categories involved in the structure of the clause
113
62 Complementisers
114
63 The nominal operator d?é
118
64 Negation markers
120
65 Markers expressing the speakers point of view with respect to the proposition
123
66 The form wὲ it is
133
67 Conclusion
138
7 Clause structures
143
72 Complement clause structures
150
74 Factive clause structures
164
75 Causal adverbial clause structures
168
76 Temporal adverbial clause structures
170
77 Purposive clause structures
173
78 Conditional clause structures
175
79 Concessive clause structures
178
Part II Lexical categories
181
8 Morphology
183
82 Inventory of affixes
187
83 Reduplication
195
84 Conclusion
216
9 Compounds
221
92 Tests to distinguish nominal compounds from nominal phrases
222
93 Typology of compound nouns
225
94 Semantic fields
232
95 Conclusion
234
11 Prepositions and postpositions
299
112 Postpositions
322
113 Do prepositions and postpositions constitute a uniform syntactic class?
340
114 Conclusion
342
12 Modifiers
347
122 Are there genuine adjectives that are colour terms?
358
123 Numerals
364
124 Quantifiers
368
125 Adverbs
375
Part III The major syntactic constructions of the language
397
13 Serial verbs
399
132 Tests distinguishing between simple and sequential serial verb structures and coordinate structures
401
133 The sɔ́lzé to take serial verb construction
409
134 The hὲn to holdto carry serial verb construction
420
135 The kplá to accompany serial verb construction
422
136 Other verbs that may appear as the first verb of a series
423
137 Serial verb constructions involving lìlὲ to turnto go aroundto surround
427
138 The d̨̨ɔ̀ to say serial verb construction
428
139 Other verbs which may participate in simple serial verb constructions
430
1310 Other verbs which may participate in sequential serial verb constructions
432
1311 The aspectual serial verb construction
433
1312 The comparative serial verb construction
435
1313 Are there too much and enough serial verb constructions?
437
1314 Conclusion
440
14 The double object construction
445
141 The semantics of the Fongbe double object construction
446
142 Themegoal asymmetries in the double object construction
454
143 The differential properties of the double object construction and the serial verb construction
460
144 The surface sequence NP PP in Fongbe
465
145 The range of verbs participating in the double object construction
472
146 Conclusion
476
15 The definite determiner in simple clauses
481
151 The definite determiner and the markers that give the speakers point of view on the proposition
482
152 The clausal determiner as an event determiner
486
153 The constraint on the realisation of two consecutive determiners
497
154 Conclusion
501
16 The socalled verbdoubling phenomena
503
161 The problem of the categorial status of the copy
504
162 Does the copy project?
507
163 Can all types of predicates be involved in the four verbdoubling structures? The stagelevelindividuallevel distinction
509
164 The relationship between the copy and various types of objects
512
165 The interpretation of predicate cleft structures
518
166 Verbdoubling phenomena and the serial verb construction
521
167 Conclusion
526
Appendices
531
Swadesh list
533
Text
539
Additional data on d̨ɔ́ introducing complements of verbs of the SAYclass
543
A sample of idiomatic verbal expressions
547
References
549
Indexe of authors
573
Indexe of subjects
577
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他の版 - すべて表示

A Grammar of Fongbe
Claire Lefebvre,Anne-Marie Brousseau
限定表示 - 2002
A Grammar of Fongbe
Claire Lefebvre,Anne-Marie Brousseau
スニペット表示 - 2002

多く使われている語句

adjectives adverbs Akoha analysis anaphor Anonymous 1983 argument Asiba àsón aspectual Bayi Brousseau 1998 c-command chapter child DEF clitics COMP complement complementiser compounds context contrast crab Cruz DEF.FUT definite determiner discussed in section double object construction ɖù event determiner examples extraction Fongbe gbà Gbe languages gerunds goal interpretation involving it.is Koku Kinyalolo Kökú Koku arrive Koku be.at Kökú sá kpó kpóɖó languages Lefebvre 1994c lexical items light verbs morpheme negative marker nominal structure nominalised noun nyí occur OP-RES phonological postpositional phrase predicate cleft constructions prefix prepare dough prepositions properties realised reduplicated relative clause resumptive pronoun S)he second verb Segurola semantic sentences serial verb construction shown Sika simple SVCS speakers suffix súnů syntactic távò tense thematic roles TMA markers tone unaccusative verbs ungrammaticality verbal vowel word order

著者について (2011)

Claire Lefebvre is Professor at the University of Québec, Canada.

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

書誌情報

書籍名A Grammar of Fongbe
Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 第 第 25 巻 巻
著者Claire Lefebvre, Anne-Marie Brousseau
出版社Walter de Gruyter, 2011
ISBN3110880180, 9783110880182
ページ数603 ページ
  
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