Del 30 - Schriften Zur Afrikanistik - Research in African Studies

On the structure of A-bar constructions in Dagbani: Perspectives of «wh»-questions and fragment answers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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This book provides an account of the structure of A-bar constructions, focusing on wh-questions and fragment answers in Dagbani, a Mabia (Gur) language spoken in Northern Ghana. It demonstrates that Dagbani wh-phrases occur in two distinct positions, ex-situ and in-situ, except for subject wh-phrases, which only occur in the former position. It provides a theoretical analysis of the distribution of the wh-phrases couched within minimalism (Chomsky 1995). Finally, the book gives an account of the structural correlation between wh-questions and their answers with the focus on the syntactic derivation of fragment answers. The author contends that the derivation of fragment answer involves two processes: A-bar movement together with PF-deletion

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Utgivningsdatum2020-05-13
Mått148 x 210 x 0 mm
Vikt382 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSchriften Zur Afrikanistik - Research in African Studies
Antal sidor238
FörlagPeter Lang AG
ISBN9783631805480

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Samuel Alhassan Issah is a senior lecturer at the College of Languages Education, University of Education, Winneba/Ghana. He holds a PhD in linguistics awarded by the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and a Master of Philosophy in Theoretical Linguistics awarded by the University of Tromsoe, Norway. His research interests include information structure (focus realizations) of Dagbani and related languages, structure of Dagbani and related languages, the syntax of elliptical phenomena, and the syntax of anaphoric expressions.