The Linker in the Khoisan Languages

AvChris Collins

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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 ǂHoã, 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-04
Mått:241 x 159 x 19 mm
Vikt:437 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190921361

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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.

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Khoisan languages are primarily known in the linguistic literature for their elaborate use of click consonants but they also have a typologically rare particle--the linker. Using data obtained through rigorous fieldwork on endangered languages, Chris Collins has provided a definitive analysis of an aspect of Universal Grammar that had largely gone unnoticed. The linker promises to provide unique insight into patterns of linguistic contact and relatedness in the Kalahari Basin and beyond.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Linker in the Khoisan LanguagesChapter 3 The Internal Structure of vP in Ju|'Hoansi and [lHoan*Chapter 4 Linkers and the Internal Structure of vP, co-authored with Mark C. Baker Chapter 5 The Absence of the Linker in Double Object Constructions in N|uuChapter 6 Click Pronouns in N|uu