The Linker in the Khoisan Languages

ISBN-13: 9780190921361 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 208 str.

Chris Collins

Recenzje

Looking in detail at a variety of often critically endangered African (mostly Khoisan, but also some Bantu) languages, and exploring the repercussions of the analysis for the family relations among these languages, this volume brings together a descriptively and analytically rich and intellectually stimulating collection of case studies in the fine structure of the Larsonian layered verb phrase, written from the vantage point of the distribution of the 'linker', the key player in Collins' Case-theoretic syntax of constructions featuring beneficiaries, instruments, locatives, and adverbials. A milestone in its contribution to the facts and facets of VP-architecture, the book also offers incentives for fieldwork and sets the research agenda with the aid of precisely formulated research questions.

O autorze

Chris Collins is Professor of Linguistics at New York University. He is a syntactician with an interest in African languages and has done fieldwork in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Togo.