The semantics of the Storyline in East and West Africa  

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Longacre, Robert E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 5 no. 1 (1986), page 51-64.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JOS/5 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper starts out with the definitionand exemplification of storyline and non-storyline elements in narrative with emphasis on their structural and semantic functions as narrative universals. The schema thus developeed is then confronted with langugaes of diverse word order typologies: SOV (Ethiopia), VSO (certain Nilotic languages of Sudan), and SVO (a number of West African languages). The major storyline consideration in the Ethiopian languages which are represented is the matter of the storyline scheme status of various kinds of "gerunds" (non-final verbs) as opposed to final verbs in chaining structures; this is seen to entail some basic semantic disticntions. Some Nicolatic languages, of which Luwo of Sudan is representative, have strict VSO structures on the storyline but various kinds of NV structures off the storyline; here again various semantic distinctions are entailed. The function of consecutive tenses in various VSO and SVO languages is then considered along with the consideration of storyline schemes in SVO languages which do not have special consecutive tenses. A general parallelism of the medial and final clauses in SOV languages to initial and consecutive clauses in VSO and SVO languages is noted. Several further parallelisms and differences among SOV, VSO, and SVO languages is noted. Several further parallelisms and differences among SOV, VSO, and SVO languages are noted.

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