Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond
Edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer
[Typological Studies in Language, 87] 2009. vi, 368 pp.
Erwin Ebermann
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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2009 From double negation to portmanteau: Comparative sentence negation in Northern Samo Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond, Cyffer, Norbert, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), pp. 261–286 | Article
Northern Samo languages of North Western Burkina Faso, belonging to the Mande group of
languages, show an extreme variation in all fields of grammar, as in the construction of
negation. Double negation marking with a post subject plus a sentence final negation
marker was probably a feature… read more