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Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there
is tremendous typological diversity at ...
Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there
is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialisation in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in languages of
northeastern Africa, which also use converbs and light verb plus coverb constructions.
Although the categorial distinction between nouns and verbs is generally clear in African languages, a number of them nevertheless provide intricate
analytical challenges in this respect. Whereas some languages are strongly head marking at the clausal level, others manifest an interesting mixture of
alternative strategies for coding participants.
The analysis of information packaging, and related issues such as split ergativity, Differential Object Marking, and discourse-configurational properties
also play a role in several contributions.
The collection contains not only innovative analyses for the respective language families these languages belong to, but also material relevant for the
current debate in theoretical linguistics concerning lexical specification as against construction-based approaches towards argument structure.
