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- Title
Coordination in Dagaare.
- Authors
Ali, Mark K. K.
- Abstract
The purpose of conjunctions in Dagaare is to join words, phrases and clauses. The use of these conjunctions can be intriguing as there are a host of them with various syntactic and semantic complications. This paper describes conjunctions used in the formation of compound constructions in Dagaare. These conjunctions have a dual function because they can conjoin lists and clauses. Dovetailing the study to compounding, the study observes that most conjunctions that coordinate clauses are found in medial position. It has been found in this study that conjunctions that conjoin clauses have selectional restrictions with regard to the words and the structure of clauses that they can coordinate. A comparative analysis of these coordinating conjunctions has further revealed that although some of these connectives may be complementary in the syntax and/or meaning, to some extent, there exist noticeable differences between them.
- Subjects
GHANA; DAGAARE language; CONJUNCTIONS (Grammar); MODERN languages; COMPARATIVE studies; SEMANTICS; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Journal of Dagaare Studies, 2006, Vol 6, p1
- ISSN
1608-0130
- Publication type
Article