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Directional extensions in Chadic languages

by Joseph Lovestrand
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9783985541911
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Language Science Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Language Science Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 424
  • Original Price: GBP 45.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1. Auflage
  • Item Weight: 871 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / General

This monograph provides the first large-scale comparative study of how verbal morphology encodes directionality across Chadic languages. Drawing on a database of 91 languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad, the book analyzes ventive, itive, vertical, and boundary-crossing extensions. The quantitative study examines where directional extensions occur and what meanings they can co-express, highlighting issues of multifunctionality and efficiency in grammar, as well as providing initial insights into their grammaticalization. The study advances the descriptive foundation of the least-documented Afroasiatic language family, while also contributing to theoretical discussions of motion events, verbal morphology, and morphosyntactic typology.

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