التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
NEGATION PATTERNS IN THE KWA LANGUAGE GROUP. |
| المؤلفون: |
Schneider, Lauren E. |
| المصدر: |
Journal of West African Languages; 2018, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p27-58, 32p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
KWA languages, INDO-European languages, LANGUAGE & languages, LINGUISTS, NEGATION (Logic) in literature |
| مستخلص: |
There currently exists extensive literature written on the topic of negation but only recently have studies of negation begun to expand outside of the limited scope of Indo-European languages. Linguists are finding that certain patterns thought to be cross-linguistic occur mainly in this most heavily studied language family. The intent of this article is to provide a succinct survey of the negation strategies in a collection of Kwa (Niger-Congo) languages in order to contribute to the literature on negation. Commonly cited patterns such as Jespersen's cycle (Jespersen 1917) are almost entirely unattested in this language group. There is a consistent pattern of marking negation in Akan, Ewe, and the North Guang languages involving the use of a preverbal nasal morpheme. Interestingly three South Guang languages utilize instead a verbal prefix bÉ-. The Ga-Dangme languages stand out from other Kwa languages in their use of verbal suffixes rather than prefixes. The Ghana-Togo Mountain languages of the Kwa group also do not rely on preverbal nasal negation marking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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