THE MORPHOSYNTAX OF COMPLEMENT-HEAD SEQUENCES by Enoch Olade Aboh ( 9780195159905 )

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THE MORPHOSYNTAX OF COMPLEMENT-HEAD SEQUENCES
CLAUSE STRUCTURE AND WORD ORDER PATTERNS IN KWA

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Enoch Olade Aboh

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC

Pub. date:

1 March, 2003

Series:

Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax

Pages:

388

Description:

This is the first book on the syntax of the Niger-Congo language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a native speaker of one of the languages (Gungbe) discussed, analyses different aspects of the syntax of the Kwa language group. Aboh also suggests how grammatical pictures for these languages can shed some light on Universal Grammar in general.

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This is the first book on the syntax of the Niger-Congo language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a native speaker of one of the languages (Gungbe) discussed, analyzes different aspects of the syntax of the "Kwa" language group. Aboh also suggests how grammatical pictures for these languages can shed some light on Universal Grammar in general.

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