TY  - BOOK
AU  - Achiri-Taboh,Blasius
AU  - Ambadiang,Théophile
AU  - Atindogbé,Gratien G.
AU  - Atindogbé,Gratien Gualbert
AU  - Creissels,Denis
AU  - Good,Jeff
AU  - Grollemund,Rebecca
AU  - Hyman,Larry M.
AU  - Jenks,Peter
AU  - Lovegren,Jesse
AU  - Makasso,Emmanuel-Moselly
AU  - Martin,Marieke
AU  - Tabe,Florence A.E.
AU  - Tamanji,Pius N.
AU  - Thwing,Rhonda
AU  - Velde,Mark Van de
AU  - Voll,Rebecca
AU  - Watters,John R.
TI  - Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages: Structure, Function and Semantics 
T2  - Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ,
SN  - 9783110467611
U1  - 496.36096711 22/ger/20231120
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Relative clauses
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Head Marking
KW  - Relative Clause
KW  - Relativisation
KW  - Resumptive Pronouns
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; 1. Kaleidoscopic variations on grammatical themes: Relative clauses in Bantoid languages of Cameroon --; 2. Accessibility and demonstrative operators in Basaá relative clauses --; 3. The augment as a construct form marker in Eton relative clause constructions --; 4. Relative clauses and relativization processes in Nugunu --; 5. Kenyang relative clauses --; 6. Relative clause in (Western) Ejagham --; 7. A prolegomenon to the syntax of the relative clause in the Eastern Grassfields Bantu borderland --; 8. Relative clause constructions in two Yemne-Kimbi languages --; 9. Relative clauses in Vute grammar and discourse --; 10. Relative clauses in Wawa --; 11. Conclusion --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This volume is a series of nine (9) contributions to our understanding of relativization strategies in eleven (11) languages of Cameroon spread into the seven (7) sub-branches of the Niger-Congo phylum: Ekoid, Mambiloid, Mamfe, Mbam, Narrow Bantu, Wide Grassfields, Yemne-Kimbi. As a productive strategy in the world’s languages, and considering the evidence that the African language are either under-described, poorly described or not described at all, investigations into the forms, structures and functions of relative clauses and relativization start filling the gap of the absence of analytical descriptive works on the topic. The papers dwelt on the construction of relative clauses, their structure and constraints, their morphosyntactic properties, how they are used to give prominence to topics or participants that are thematic in a given discourse, and to mark the boundaries of units of text, and the formal characteristics of restrictive relative clause constructions. The findings generated so far constitute an endless tank for many fields of hyphenated linguistics including general linguistics, cognitive linguist, applied psycholinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics and pragmatics
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110469547
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110469547
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110469547/original
ER  -