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9 February 2010

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Interaction of Morphology and Syntax

Case studies in Afroasiatic

Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay
University of Colorado

2008. v, 234 pp.
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978 90 272 2987 8 / EUR 110.00 / USD 165.00
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The present volume deals with hitherto unexplored issues on the interaction of morphology and syntax. These selected and invited papers mainly concern Cushitic and Chadic languages, the least-described members of the Afroasiatic family. Three papers in the volume explore one or more typological characteristics across an entire language family or branch, while others focus on one or two languages within a family and the implications of their structures for the family, the phylum, or linguistic typology as a whole. The diversity of topics addressed within the present volume reflects the great diversity of language structures and functions within the Afroasiatic phylum.


Table of contents

Introduction
Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay
1–5
Case marking, syntactic domains and information structure in Kabyle (Berber)
Amina Mettouchi
7–40
The internal and comparative reconstruction of verb extensions in early Chadic and Afroasiatic
Christopher Ehret
41–59
One way of becoming a dative subject
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
61–83
Coding the unexpected: Subject pronouns in East Dangla
Erin Shay
85–105
Ergative-active features of the Ethiopian Semitic type
Grover Hudson
107–135
Number as an exponent of gender in Cushitic
Maarten Mous
137–160
Relativization in Kambaata (Cushitic)
Yvonne Treis
161–206
Between coordination and subordination in Gawwada
Mauro Tosco
207–226
Author index
227–228
Language index
229–230
Subject index
231–234