Syntactic accommodation within the verbal phrase in Hausa
The paper examines syntactic relations within Hausa verbal phrase and shows their surface exponents calling them markers of syntactic accommodation. These markers, encoded within a predicate or situated outside the predicate indicate the types of objects/complements following the verb and help in d...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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University of Warsaw Press
2001-12-01
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| Series: | Studies in African Languages and Cultures |
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| Online Access: | https://salc.uw.edu.pl/index.php/SALC/article/view/462 |
| Summary: | The paper examines syntactic relations within Hausa verbal phrase and shows their surface exponents calling them markers of syntactic accommodation. These markers, encoded within a predicate or situated outside the predicate indicate the types of objects/complements following the verb and help in defining the status of a verb not followed by any objects. The paper classifies exponents of syntactic relations and discusses their functions.
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| ISSN: | 2545-2134 2657-4187 |