Cross-disciplinary approaches to Information Structure in Niger-Congo languages (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783985541560)

This volume contains a selection of papers that were originally presented at a workshop Cross-disciplinary approaches to Information Structure in African languages", held in Porto-Novo, Benin in 2022. Eight papers explore information structure in Niger-Congo languages from different linguistic angles: phonetics, phonology, syntax and semantics. The papers address a range of topics in different Niger-Congo languages from both junior and senior scholars in the field of linguistics, reflectingboth the diversity of languages and scholarship in African linguistics.

Author: Akinbiyi Akinlabi
ISBN-10: 3985541566
ISBN-13: 9783985541560
Publisher: Language Science Press
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2025
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.63d