Wikisida, AF1211 V23 Typologi och språkliga strukturer i afrikanska språk: Lesson 8 Clause participants and valency; negation

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2022-10-28T07:28:27+02:00

This lesson ties together several things that we have read about earlier. In lesson 5 we read about derivation, for example the verbal extensions in Bantu (the article by Abdulaziz Lodhi). These extensions have relevance for the number of arguments a verb takes. Also repeat section 4.4 of Tucker Childs, from chapter 4 Morphology.

A. From our main textbook - Velupillai: An introduction to linguistic typology

Chapter 9 Simple clauses.

Study questions for the first part of this chapter (9.1). Although interesting, you can skip section 9.1.3.6. Study questions for the second part of the chapter (9.2) will follow.

Linguistic question of this lesson.

B. Another topic relating to the clause is negation. Read this chapter on negation in general (with some reference to African languages):

van der Auwera, Johan and Olga Krasnoukhova. 2020. The Typology of Negation. In Viviane Déprez and M. Teresa Espinal (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Negation, 0: Oxford University Press

C. The exercise is a quiz this time! To get you acquainted with thematic roles. You can take the quiz as many times as you like until you get a Pass