Barayin Morphosyntax by Joseph Lovestrand, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Barayin Morphosyntax by Joseph Lovestrand, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Barayin Morphosyntax by Joseph Lovestrand, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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This volume offers a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) analysis of the morphosyntax of Barayin, a Chadic language spoken by about 6000 people in the Guera region of Chad. The core chapters of the book draw on rich empirical data to provide analyses of the basic clause, noun phrases, verbphrases, and serial verb constructions. The version of LFG adopted here includes two recent innovations: the first is minimal c-structure, which results in simpler phrase structure representations; the second is the assumption that glue semantics accounts for argument selection, rejecting the needfor a level of a-structure or for Completeness and Coherence in f-structure. Argument sharing in serial verb constructions can thus be modeled in a connected s-structure. This method of modeling semantic composition in complex predicates is extended to directional and associated motion complexpredicates in Choctaw and Wambaya, removing the need to appeal to a special mechanism to unite semantic forms in such constructions. | Barayin Morphosyntax by Joseph Lovestrand, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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