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Complex Sentences in African Languages Complex Sentences in African Languages: A tentative typology of syntactic integration and its exponents

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

paper
Creator:
Car
Editor:
Lan
Publisher:
CCSD
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Descriptions of complex sentences in African languages generally focus on the presence/absence of conjunctions, whether co-ordinating or subordinating. When considering complex sentences without conjunctions, other elements are active in the integration of the dependent clause (D) into the matrix clause (M). The paper will present a list of the various processes used by African languages to mark subordination.