On the structure of A-bar constructions in Dagbani: Perspectives of 'wh'-questions and fragment answers

This book provides an account of the structure of A-bar constructions, focusing on wh-questions and fragment answers in Dagbani, a Mabia (Gur) language spoken in Northern Ghana. It demonstrates that Dagbani wh-phrases occur in two distinct positions.

Autorentext

Samuel Alhassan Issah is a senior lecturer at the College of Languages Education, University of Education, Winneba/Ghana. He holds a PhD in linguistics awarded by the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and a Master of Philosophy in Theoretical Linguistics awarded by the University of Tromsoe, Norway. His research interests include information structure (focus realizations) of Dagbani and related languages, structure of Dagbani and related languages, the syntax of elliptical phenomena, and the syntax of anaphoric expressions.

Inhalt

General introduction

The grammar of the Dagbani interrogative DP

The syntax of Dagbani ex-situ wh-questions

A syntactic analysis of Dagbani wh-in-situquestions

Constraints on wh-movement in Dagban

On the syntax of answers to wh-questions and the derivation of fragment answers

Summary and conclusions