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Cross-Categorial Classification Serge Sagna

Cross-Categorial Classification By Serge Sagna

Cross-Categorial Classification by Serge Sagna


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Cross-Categorial Classification: Nouns and Verbs in Eegimaa by Serge Sagna

Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual phenomenon is found in some Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages, including Joola languages like Eegimaa, Fogny and Kwatay, where several different noun class/gender prefixes (NCPs) are used to classify both nouns and verbs. In this book, it is argued following Sagna (2008), that these parallel morphosyntactic classifications in the nominal domain and verbal domains also reflect parallel semantic categorisation of entities and events. The main topics investigated in this book are word class flexibility between nouns and verbs, non-finiteness, noun class/gender (where morphological classes are analysed separately from agreement classes) and the semantic principles underlying the categorisation of entities and events. One of the central findings proposed in this book is that instances of NCP alternations on non-finite verbs reflect strategies of event delimitation. This book will be of interest to scholars investigating parts-of-speech systems, finiteness, systems of nominal and verbal classification, and linguistic categorization.

About Serge Sagna

Serge Sagna, University of Manchester and University of York, UK.

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NPB9783110595062
9783110595062
3110595060
Cross-Categorial Classification: Nouns and Verbs in Eegimaa by Serge Sagna
New
Hardback
De Gruyter
2022-03-21
290
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