Barayin Morphosyntax - A Lexical-Functional Approach

This volume offers a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) analysis of the morphosyntax of Barayin, a Chadic language spoken by about 6000 people in the Guera region of Chad. It draws on rich empirical data to provide analyses of multiple constructions, with a particular focus on serial verbs.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Lexical-Functional Grammar


• 3: Sentence structure


• 4: Nouns, pronouns, and prepositions


• 5: Verb phrase, particles, and adjuncts


• 6: Serial verb constructions


• 7: Motion and complex predicates in LFG


• 8: Conclusion

About the author

Joseph Lovestrand is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS University of London, where he studies the expression of motion at the syntax-semantics interface from a cross-linguistic perspective. He spent over a year in Chad studying Barayin, a previously unstudied language spoken by about 5000 people in the Guera region of Chad. This research helped launch the first literacy program in Barayin, and was the subject of his graduate thesis at Dallas International University and doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford.

Summary

This volume offers a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) analysis of the morphosyntax of Barayin, a Chadic language spoken by about 6000 people in the Guera region of Chad. It draws on rich empirical data to provide analyses of multiple constructions, with a particular focus on serial verbs.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Lovestrand, Joseph (British Academy Postdoctoral F Lovestrand
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780198851158
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885115-8
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages; Oxford Studies of Endangered L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax and morphology, African Languages, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / African Languages, Grammar, syntax