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This book documents the interrogative system of Ikpana, an
endangered indigenous Ghana-Togo Mountain language of eastern Ghana
also known as Logba. The system is notable in several respects. It
exhibits features that buck certain typological trends, act as
counterexamples to some claims about language universals, and
exemplify fascinating patterns that are either rare or unfamiliar
in interrogative systems cross-linguistically. Drawing on original
fieldwork and a combination of formal/theoretical, experimental,
and comparative methodologies, the book provides a
theoretically-informed description and analysis of Ikpana
interrogative grammar, encompassing both syntactic and phonological
aspects of question formation in the language. The chapters explore
a range of phenomena including polar question formation, wh-
movement, wh- in-situ, interrogative intonation, and prosody, among
others. The authors demonstrate that theoretically-guided language
documentation does not only contribute to language description, but
can also increase understanding of the human Language Faculty and
expand the empirical base of language typologies: bringing formal
and theoretical concerns to the fore facilitates richer
descriptions of the grammar than purely descriptive approaches
allow.
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