A Grammar of FongbeMouton de Gruyter, 2002 - 582 ページ 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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adjectives adverbs Akoha anaphor Anonymous 1983 argument Asiba Asiba Koku àsón aspectual Bayi Brousseau 1998 c-command chapter clitics COMP complement complementiser compounds context contrast crab Cruz DEF.FUT definite determiner discussed in section double object construction ɖò ɖù émì event determiner examples extraction factive Fongbe gbà Gbe languages gerunds goal Haitian creole interpretation it.is Koku K3kú Kinyalolo Kökú Koku arrive Koku be.at 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 syntactic távò thematic roles tòn tone unaccusative verbs ungrammaticality verbal vowel word order