Description
Product ID: | 9780190921378 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax |
Title: | The Linker in the Khoisan Languages |
Authors: | Author: Chris Collins |
Page Count: | 208 |
Subjects: | Historical and comparative linguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Khoisan languages |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-07-04 |