Erwin Ebermann

List of John Benjamins publications in which Erwin Ebermann is involved.

Title

Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond

Edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer

This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 87] 2009. vi, 368 pp.

Article

Ebermann, Erwin 2009 From double negation to portmanteau: Comparative sentence negation in Northern Samo Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond, Cyffer, Norbert, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), pp. 261–286 | Article

Northern Samo languages of North Western Burkina Faso, belonging to the Mande group of languages, show an extreme variation in all fields of grammar, as in the construction of negation. Double negation marking with a post subject plus a sentence final negation marker was probably a feature… read more