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The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role &
Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional
theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two
leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like
which starts from 'exotic' languages rather than English? Second,
how can the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in
different grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although
RRG took linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning,
African languages have been underrepresented in the development of
the theory. Given the sheer number African languages deserve a
wider coverage in a syntactic theory which takes linguistic
diversity seriously. The volume is intended to fill this gap and
comprises a selection of papers which investigate different aspects
related to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different
African languages. This includes: argument doubling and dislocation
in iziZulu, complex referential phrases in Gikuyu, serial verb
constructions in Igbo, locative complements in Hausa and Zarma
Chiine and focus constructions in Emai. The papers will extent the
current RRG approach to new languages and phenomena.
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