Jens Fleischhauer & Claudius Patrick Kihara (eds.), African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective: Studies on the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface

The Role and Reference Grammar community of researchers recently welcomed a book dedicated to area studies. The purpose of the book is to show how various aspects of the morphosyntax of African languages can be accounted for using the Role and Reference Grammar framework (usually abbreviated as RRG...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lla,
Autor principal: Abdoulaye, Mahamane L.
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: Linguistique et Langues Africaines 2024
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:The Role and Reference Grammar community of researchers recently welcomed a book dedicated to area studies. The purpose of the book is to show how various aspects of the morphosyntax of African languages can be accounted for using the Role and Reference Grammar framework (usually abbreviated as RRG). RRG is a structuralist-functionalist theory that takes language structure to be, by and large, motivated by semantic and pragmatic factors. The book, which can be downloaded free from the De Gru...