Quotative indexes in African languages a synchronic and diachronic survey
The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selec...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter
c2008.
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Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Empirical approaches to language typology ; 34. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31510218*spi |
Sumario: | The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. The study is based primarily on this language sample, in particular on the analysis of quotative indexes and related expressions from a text corpus of each sample language, but also includes a wide range of data from the. |
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Descripción Física: | xxi, 686 p. : il |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [612]-654) e índice. |
ISBN: | 9783110211450 9781283398138 |