Author: Stuart McGillPublisher: Institute of African Studies University of Ghana
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A Grammar of Sisaala-Pasaale
Author: Stuart McGillPublisher: Institute of African Studies University of Ghana
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A dictionary and grammatical outline of Chakali
Author: Jonathan BrindlePublisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3944675916
Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chakali, a Southwestern Grusi language spoken by less than 3500 people in northwest Ghana. The dictionary offers a consistent description of word meaning and provides the basis for future research in the linguistic area. It is also designed to provide an inventory of correspondence with English usage in a reversal index. The concepts used in the dictionary are explained in a grammar outline, which is of interest to specialists in Gur and Grusi linguistics, as well as any language researchers working in this part of the world.
Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond
Author: Norbert CyfferPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027206686
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following typological features have been identified to be prominent in our region: conflict or even incompatibility between negation and focus, use of other indirect means of negating non-indicative mood (covered under the term Prohibitive ), different negation patterns in different Tense-Aspect-Moods (e.g. Imperfective vs. Perfective), lack of negative indefinites, and disjunctive negative marking (often referred to as double negation ). The articles presented here show that areal factors have played a significant role in the development of negation strategies in the languages of West Africa and beyond. On the other hand genetic factors seem to be less prominent."
Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004392947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives critiques recent claims that the humanities, especially in public universities in poor countries, have lost their significance, defining missions, methods and standards due to the pressure to justify their existence. The predominant responses to these claims have been that the humanities are relevant for creating a “world culture” to address the world’s problems. This book argues that behind such arguments lies a false neutrality constructed to deny the values intrinsic to marginalized cultures and peoples and to justify their perceived inferiority. These essays by scholars in postcolonial studies critique these false claims about the humanities through critical analyses of alterity, difference, and how the Other is perceived, defined and subdued. Contributors: Gordon S.K. Adika, Kofi N. Awoonor, E. John Collins, Kari Dako, Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu, James Gibbs, Helen Lauer, Bernth Lindfors, J.H. Kwabena Nketia, Abena Oduro, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Olúfémi Táíwò, Alexis B. Tengan, Kwasi Wiredu, Francis Nii-Yartey
Collected Language Notes on Dagaare Grammar
Author: Mary Esther Kropp DakubuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dagaare language
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Reconnecting Form and Meaning
Author: Caroline GentensPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027254494
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular, Semiotic Grammar and SFL), the Prague School, Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), and broader cognitive-functional (e.g. Construction Grammar) and usage-based approaches (e.g. Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization theory, corpus-based sociolinguistics). The range of topics addressed makes the volume particularly relevant to linguists investigating information structure, construction grammar, functional discourse grammar, spatial deixis, pronoun and case systems, and/or the semantics of verbal constructions.
Collected Field Reports on the Phonology of Safaliba
Author: Paul SchaeferCollected Field Reports on the Phonology of Ahanta
Author: Samuel K. NtumyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ahanta language
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
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