Conditional constructions in African languages

This paper serves as an introduction to the special issue of Studies in African Linguistics devoted to conditional constructions in African languages. I first describe the motivation for this volume and the common terminological conventions used in the papers, before discussing some of the more infl...

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Autor principal:	Steve Nicolle
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2017
Materias:	conditional Chadic Nilotic Mande Niger-Congo Bantu Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0776d5e6615049abb382d0c8e58cc0f42021-11-19T03:52:10ZConditional constructions in African languages10.32473/sal.v46i1.1072390039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/0776d5e6615049abb382d0c8e58cc0f42017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107239https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThis paper serves as an introduction to the special issue of Studies in African Linguistics devoted to conditional constructions in African languages. I first describe the motivation for this volume and the common terminological conventions used in the papers, before discussing some of the more influential attempts to categorize conditional constructions together with some of the functions of conditional constructions. I then present an overview of conditional constructions in African languages, noting the various kinds of conditional meanings that are distinguished grammatically in different languages, and types of isomorphism between conditional constructions and other categories. I conclude with a note on concessive conditionals.Steve NicolleLibraryPress@UFarticleconditionalChadicNiloticMandeNiger-CongoBantuPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 46, Iss 1 (2017)
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description	This paper serves as an introduction to the special issue of Studies in African Linguistics devoted to conditional constructions in African languages. I first describe the motivation for this volume and the common terminological conventions used in the papers, before discussing some of the more influential attempts to categorize conditional constructions together with some of the functions of conditional constructions. I then present an overview of conditional constructions in African languages, noting the various kinds of conditional meanings that are distinguished grammatically in different languages, and types of isomorphism between conditional constructions and other categories. I conclude with a note on concessive conditionals.
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Conditional constructions in African languages

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