Directional extensions in Chadic languages
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Beschreibung
This monograph provides the first large-scale comparative study of how verbal morphology encodes directionality across Chadic languages. Drawing on a database of 91 languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad, the book analyzes ventive, itive, vertical, and boundary-crossing extensions. The quantitative study examines where directional extensions occur and what meanings they can co-express, highlighting issues of multifunctionality and efficiency in grammar, as well as providing initial insights into their grammaticalization. The study advances the descriptive foundation of the least-documented Afroasiatic language family, while also contributing to theoretical discussions of motion events, verbal morphology, and morphosyntactic typology.
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Books on Demand GmbH,
In de Tarpen 42,
22848 Norderstedt
Tel.: +49 40 - 53 43 35-0
Fax: +49 40 - 53 43 35-84
E-Mail buchhandel@bod.de
Web: www.bod.de
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Joseph Lovestrand
Joseph Lovestrand is a Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. His research spans descriptive, comparative, and formal linguistics, with a particular focus on lesser-studied languages including fieldwork in Chad, Cameroon and Indonesia. He earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford for work on Barayin (an East Chadic language) and was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS University of London.