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[Revised edition]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF (xvi, 267 pages)) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Landmarks ; 1
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Landmarks series ; 1.
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| Note |
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of British Columbia, 2005 titled Topics in Yoráub́a nominal expressions. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Yoráub́a genitive constructions -- 3. ti-genitives as reduced relative clauses -- 4. Interpreting Yoráub́a bare nouns -- 5. Marking specificity and salience in nominal expressions -- 6. Plural strategies in Yoráub́a. |
| Summary |
The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures. This study is a departer from most previous work on Yoráub́a Grammar in the sense that rather than being purely a descriptive grammar; it attempts to provide a theoretical analysis of the internal and external syntax of Yoráub́a nominal expressions using the Chomskyan Principles and Parameters approach to syntax. This Generative theory attempts to characterize the grammar of all natural languages in terms of a set of universal principles that all languages share, and a set of parameters along which languages may vary. The book emphasizes the empirical motivation behind major theoretical proposals in that framework, and shows how views on the nature of universal grammar and cross-linguistic variation have developed over the years as a consequence of a massive increase in cross-linguistic syntactic research. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Yoruba language -- Syntax.
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Yoruba language. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Yoruba language -- Possessives.
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Yoruba language -- Noun phrase.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun phrase. |
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Yoruba language -- Nominals.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9789785416459 |
| ISBN |
9789785420890 |
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9785420892 |
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9789785416459 |
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9785416453 |
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