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The Cartography of Focus and Interrogative Projections in Ǹjò-Kóo Ǹjå-Kóo的焦点和疑问投影制图

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.26478/ja2022.10.16.3

Olaogun S.

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An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of the Mid Tone in Isekírì Isekírì中音的最优性理论分析

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.26478/ja2022.10.16.6

Osewa O.R., O. Evbuomwan

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A Davidsonian Truth-theoretic Semantics Treatment of an EkeGusii Proverb 大卫主义对《鄂克古斯谚语》的真语义学处理

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.26478/ja2021.9.15.4

Mecha E.G., I. N. Opande

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Metaphorical Construction of Marriage among Kenyan Swahili Speakers 肯尼亚斯瓦希里语使用者的婚姻隐喻建构

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.26478/ja2021.9.15.5

Opande I.N.

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Sinicization of Indic Loanwords in Chinese Language: Foreignization to domestication 汉语中印度借词的中国化：异化到归化

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.26478/ja2021.9.15.6

D. N.

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EkeGusii Morphopragmatics and the Junction with Iconicity EkeGusii形态语用学及其与象似性的联系

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.26478/ja2021.9.15.3

Mariera E.O.

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Morphosyntactic Structures of Existential, Possessive and Locative Constructions in Amharic 阿姆哈拉语中存在、占有和位置结构的形态句法结构

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.26478/ja2021.9.15.2

G. A.

{"title":"Morphosyntactic Structures of Existential, Possessive and Locative Constructions in Amharic","authors":"G. A.","doi":"10.26478/ja2021.9.15.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26478/ja2021.9.15.2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper lays out the morphosyntactic structures of existential, locative and possessive constructions in Amharic. Amharic belongs to South Ethio-Semitic language subfamily. It is natively spoken in the Amhara region and used as the first and the second language for some urban dwellers in the country. It is a working language for the Federal Government of Ethiopia. It serves the same in Gambella, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ and Benishangul-Gumuz regional states. The Amharic existential, possessive and locative constructions are characterized by using the same existential verb stem all-‘exist’. The verb is defective in its derivation and conjugation. Unlike the prototypical verbs of the language, the existential verb uses a different verb for imperfective and past verb forms. Unlike the regular verbs of the language, the existential verb, which is perfective in form, conveys present tense. It has been observed that indefinite nominals appear as the E (Existent) in existentials and possessives, whereas definite ones appear in locatives. The morphosyntactic features of existentials and locatives are the same in every aspect except the use of definiteness of the E (Existent). The possessives differ from the two constructions in word order and morphological structure of the verb.","PeriodicalId":31949,"journal":{"name":"Macrolinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48766729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Language of Open-Air Market in North-Central Nigeria 尼日利亚中北部露天市场的语言

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.26478/ja2021.9.15.7

A. G., O. Atolagbe, E. Udosen, A. Rafiu

{"title":"Language of Open-Air Market in North-Central Nigeria","authors":"A. G., O. Atolagbe, E. Udosen, A. Rafiu","doi":"10.26478/ja2021.9.15.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26478/ja2021.9.15.7","url":null,"abstract":"Language plays a significant role in business, trade and commerce. Bargaining in open-air markets often involves the speech act of negotiating, compromising and manoeuvring, which could either result in conflict or persuasion of the potential buyer to patronize a seller. This article examined the sociolinguistic aspects of language use between sellers and buyers in Ipata, a popular market in Ilorin, north-central Nigeria. The call strategy, spiel, honorification, pragmatic mechanics as well as sociolinguistic style employed by vendors were observed. The objectives of the study were to: identify the number of languages used in Ipata market; investigate the factors that influence the choice of any of the languages used between sellers and buyers at a particular time; analyze their sociolinguistic and stylistic features; and discuss some of the barriers that could cause intercultural communication breakdown between sellers and buyers in a market situation.Oral interview, systematic observation and Bauman’s (2001) method of street recording were used to gather data for the study. Sixty-five people comprising thirty-six females and twenty-nine males were interviewed. The survey which spanned three months discovered that open-air markets bear some universal features, however, due to cultural relativity, variations occur. To this end, it was established that Ipata market harbours different languages; it also identified calls and spiels with their characteristic stylistic, sociolinguistic and discourse features in the market. In conclusion, the study argued that studying the verbal discourse of marketplaces is significant as it defines what the language-culture-society-relationship is all about.","PeriodicalId":31949,"journal":{"name":"Macrolinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45366828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Structure of Classifier Constructions and Some Related Theoretical Issues 分类器构造的结构及其相关理论问题

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.26478/ja2021.9.15.1

Yongzhong Yang

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Reflexivization and Reciprocality in the Kalabari Language 卡拉巴里语中的反身性与互动性

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.26478/ja2021.9.14.7

J. Oribomate, S. C.Aboh

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