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Cross-Categorial Classification : Nouns and Verbs in Eegimaa

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dc.contributor.author Serge Sagna
dc.date.accessioned 2024-09-27T07:39:29Z
dc.date.available 2024-09-27T07:39:29Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.isbn 9783110595062
dc.identifier.isbn 9783110632767
dc.identifier.isbn 9783110636321
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/184668
dc.description.abstract Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual phenomenon is found in some Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages, including Jóola languages like Eegimaa, Fogny and Kwatay, where several different noun class/gender prefixes (NCPs) are used to classify both nouns and verbs. In this book, it is argued following Sagna (2008), that these parallel morphosyntactic classifications in the nominal domain and verbal domains also reflect parallel semantic categorisation of entities and events. The main topics investigated in this book are word class flexibility between nouns and verbs, non-finiteness, noun class/gender (where morphological classes are analysed separately from agreement classes) and the semantic principles underlying the categorisation of entities and events. One of the central findings proposed in this book is that instances of NCP alternations on non-finite verbs reflect strategies of event delimitation. This book will be of interest to scholars investigating parts-of-speech systems, finiteness, systems of nominal and verbal classification, and linguistic categorization.
dc.publisher De Gruyter Mouton
dc.subject.other LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
dc.subject.other Bandial language--Grammar, Comparative
dc.subject.other Atlantic languages--Grammar, Comparative
dc.subject.other Bandial (African people)--Languages
dc.subject.other Typology (Linguistics)
dc.subject.other Linguistics--Africa, West
dc.title Cross-Categorial Classification : Nouns and Verbs in Eegimaa
dc.type Book
dc.collection Электронно-библиотечные системы
dc.source.id ebsco-3175801


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