Alexander Cobbinah
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexander Cobbinah is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 15. Tail-head linkage in Upper Guinea Coast languages: The areal diffusion of pragmatic-syntactic structures (Baïnounk, Joola and Creoles) Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa, Hollington, Andrea, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein (eds.), pp. 394–424 | Chapter
This paper draws attention to a phenomenon at the intersection of pragmatics, discourse analysis and syntax known as tail-head linkage (THL) in Baïnounk Gubëeher and other West African languages spoken in Upper Guinea (Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Cabo Verde). THL is a discourse feature common in… read more
2014 Chapter 8. When number meets classification: The linguistic expression of number in Baïnounk languages Number – Constructions and Semantics: Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania, Storch, Anne and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.), pp. 199–220 | Article
This paper presents an account of number marking in two Baïnounk languages, Gubëeher and Gujaher, also taking data from the Baïnounk language Guñaamolo into account. Number distinctions in these languages are coded epiphenominally through the paradigmatic relationships and combinatorial… read more