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Grammatical and Semantic Relations in Hausa

Grammatical and Semantic Relations in Hausa

'Point of View', 'Goal' and 'Affected Object'

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The present study examines a distinct language structure built around categories that have been ignored until recently by linguistic theories. One of these is the category 'point of view' of the subject. The other category is 'goal', coding the presence of the goal of the predicate. This study demonstrates that the two categories play a fundamental role in the grammar of Hausa, a West Chadic language. They determine the way arguments are coded, the form of the predicate, the semantic interpretation of the clause, and the interpretation of the semantic roles of the noun phrases occurring in the...