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By Enoch O. Aboh,James Essegbey

This publication grew out of a priority we now have had that very many theoretical and descriptive paintings at the Kwa languages weren't available to the final linguistic group. therefore, those languages have been merely stated within the context of very particular discussions similar to serial verb buildings. yet because the reader of this e-book will become aware of, syntactic issues mentioned within the context of Kwa variety from naked nouns, relative clauses, negation, discourse markers and the interplay with the clausal outer edge, to argument constitution. Many matters stay that have to be delivered to the fore of the neighborhood and we are hoping that this ebook will set off the interest of the reader to get to understand extra approximately those languages. a lot of the paintings awarded the following couldn't were attainable with no assistance from many colleagues and the contri- tors whom we thank warmly for becoming a member of this firm. we're additionally thankful to the editors of the sequence, Marcel den Dikken, Joan Maling, Liliane Haegeman to have provided us this platform to start up the talk approximately Kwa. we'll additionally wish to thank Helen van der Stelt and Jolanda Voogd from Springer for his or her variety collaboration and persistence. we're additionally very thankful to Joscelyn Essegbey and Leston Buell for supporting with enhancing the manuscript. Enoch, O. Aboh James Essegbey v Contents 1 The Phonology Syntax Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Enoch, O. Aboh and James Essegbey 2 The Morphosyntax of the Noun word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . eleven Enoch, O.

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