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Cross-Categorial Classification

Nouns and Verbs in Eegimaa
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022
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Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

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Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual phenomenon is found in some Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages, including Jóola languages like Eegimaa, Fogny and Kwatay, where several different noun class/gender prefixes (NCPs) are used to classify both nouns and verbs. In this book, it is argued following Sagna (2008), that these parallel morphosyntactic classifications in the nominal domain and verbal domains also reflect parallel semantic categorisation of entities and events. The main topics investigated in this book are word class flexibility between nouns and verbs, non-finiteness, noun class/gender (where morphological classes are analysed separately from agreement classes) and the semantic principles underlying the categorisation of entities and events. One of the central findings proposed in this book is that instances of NCP alternations on non-finite verbs reflect strategies of event delimitation. This book will be of interest to scholars investigating parts-of-speech systems, finiteness, systems of nominal and verbal classification, and linguistic categorization.

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Serge Sagna, University of Manchester and University of York, UK.

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    Frontmatter

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    Preface

    V
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    Acknowledgements

    VII
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    Contents

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    List of figures

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    List of tables

    XXI
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    Abbreviations

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    1 Overt verb classification in spoken language: An introduction and a typology

    1
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    2 Nouns, verbs and polycategorial stems in Eegimaa

    28
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    3 The Eegimaa noun class/gender system

    61
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    4 Non-finite verbs and their classification

    105
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    5 Noun class semantics

    148
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    6 Semantics of overt verb classes

    192
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    7 Event delimitation: NCP alternations on non-finite verbs

    222
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    8 Conclusion

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    References

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    Appendix A: Classification and location of Eegimaa

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    Appendix B: Phonological sketch of Eegimaa

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    Index

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eBook published on:
March 7, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110636321
Hardcover published on:
March 21, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110595062
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Front matter:
22
Main content:
268
Illustrations:
7
Coloured Illustrations:
3
Tables:
31
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636321
eBook ISBN: 9783110636321
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110595062
Keywords for this book
Atlantic Languages; African Languages; Eegimaa; Banjal
Audience(s) for this book
Researchers in General and Theoretical Linguistics, Typology
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