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Beyond aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages ed. by Doris L. Payne and Shahar Shirtz (review)

Beyond aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages ed. by Doris L. Payne... Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University Box 201 22100 Lund, Sweden [Satu.Manninen@englund.lu.se] Hamblin, Charles Leonard. 1973. Questions in Montague English. Foundations of Language 10.41­53. Online: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25000703. Jones, Bob Morris. 1999. The Welsh answering system. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Krifka, Manfred. 2013. Response particles as propositional anaphors. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 23.1­18. DOI: 10.3765/salt.v23i0.2676. Beyond aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages. Ed. by Doris L. Payne and Shahar Shirtz. (Typological studies in language 109.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2015. Pp. vii, 321. ISBN 9789027206909. $149 (Hb). This volume presents a series of corpus-based studies analyzing the various grammatical devices used to express discourse functions and to structure narratives in some ten African languages. Thanks to the editors' efforts in setting up comparative concepts, the scope of this book doubtless goes far beyond African linguistics and should interest descriptive linguists and typologists, as well as specialists of discourse studies. The book opens with an introductory and synthetic chapter by the editors. The nine following articles, each devoted to studies on particular languages, are then ordered along language families (or phyla) of Africa. In their substantial introductory article `Discourse structuring and typology: How strong is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Language Linguistic Society of America

Beyond aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages ed. by Doris L. Payne and Shahar Shirtz (review)

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Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University Box 201 22100 Lund, Sweden [Satu.Manninen@englund.lu.se] Hamblin, Charles Leonard. 1973. Questions in Montague English. Foundations of Language 10.41­53. Online: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25000703. Jones, Bob Morris. 1999. The Welsh answering system. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Krifka, Manfred. 2013. Response particles as propositional anaphors. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 23.1­18. DOI: 10.3765/salt.v23i0.2676. Beyond aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages. Ed. by Doris L. Payne and Shahar Shirtz. (Typological studies in language 109.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2015. Pp. vii, 321. ISBN 9789027206909. $149 (Hb). This volume presents a series of corpus-based studies analyzing the various grammatical devices used to express discourse functions and to structure narratives in some ten African languages. Thanks to the editors' efforts in setting up comparative concepts, the scope of this book doubtless goes far beyond African linguistics and should interest descriptive linguists and typologists, as well as specialists of discourse studies. The book opens with an introductory and synthetic chapter by the editors. The nine following articles, each devoted to studies on particular languages, are then ordered along language families (or phyla) of Africa. In their substantial introductory article `Discourse structuring and typology: How strong is

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