Abstract : 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.
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Bernard Caron. Complex Sentences in African Languages: A tentative typology of syntactic integration and its exponents. ACAL32, Mar 2001, Berkeley, États-Unis. ⟨halshs-00647844⟩