{"title":"Melodic tones in Karanga Shona","authors":"D. Odden","doi":"10.3406/aflin.2014.1038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/aflin.2014.1038","url":null,"abstract":"Le systeme melodique du shona karanga peut, pour une grande partie, se reduire a l’ajout d’un ton H a l’extremite gauche ou droite du theme, selon le ton lexical. L’interaction entre le H melodique et la propagation vers la droite est tres complexe, et donne lieu a des schemes de surface differant legerement selon la categorie flexionnelle. Le choix du scheme melodique est presque entierement previsible a partir des proprietes morphosyntaxiques generales du mot.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84605153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bakweri tone melodies","authors":"M. Marlo, D. Odden","doi":"10.3406/aflin.2014.1036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/aflin.2014.1036","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article est un compte-rendu des melodies tonales verbales du bakweri, qui compte 6 schemes tonals du theme soumis a inflexions. Selon le temps auquel il est conjugue, un verbe peut n’avoir aucun autre ton que ceux lexicaux, ou ajouter B, H, HB ou BH au theme. Ces tons melodiques sont lies a la voyelle finale, et le H initial de la melodie se propage a gauche vers le ton lexical de la racine. En outre, le reflechi contribue a une melodie BH qui remplace partiellement la melodie inherente determinee par le temps du verbe et qui est soumise a une regle particuliere de propagation vers la gauche.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74162030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Verb stem tone patterns in Dawida (E74a)","authors":"G. Philippson","doi":"10.3406/aflin.2014.1039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/aflin.2014.1039","url":null,"abstract":"Les dialectes dawida presentent des systemes tonals bases sur la substitution des tons H par une syllabe rajoutee sur la droite. En outre, lorsque plusieurs syllabes H sous-jacentes se succedent immediatement, seule la derniere est realisee. Les temps principaux ont leur ton de base, et les schemes tonals de H melodiques consistent principalement en un scheme dans lequel toutes les syllabes post-radicales deviennent H sous-jacentes ; les autres sont tres marginaux.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89846962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melodic tones in Orungu (Bantu B11b)","authors":"J. Maniacky, Odette Ambouroue","doi":"10.3406/aflin.2014.1033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/aflin.2014.1033","url":null,"abstract":"En orungu (bantu B11b), les verbes sont caracterises par l’utilisation de tons melodiques dans les paradigmes verbaux, associant des schemes tonals particuliers a certains temps/ aspects precis. Nous discutons ces six schemes a travers une nouvelle analyse de la tonologie verbale de la langue. Deux d’entre eux sont responsables d’une neutralisation remarquable au sein de la phrase intonationnelle. Nous etudions egalement la distribution des melodies et leur previsibilite.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74623202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tonal melodies in the Lulamogi verb","authors":"Larry M. Hyman","doi":"10.3406/AFLIN.2014.1029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/AFLIN.2014.1029","url":null,"abstract":"Dans cet article, je decris les melodies tonales du lulamogi, langue peu repandue et peu etudiee du groupe luganda-lusoga. Bien que le lulamogi ait perdu tout contraste lexical dans les verbes, comme la plupart des langues bantu, il possede un riche ensemble de melodies verbales assignees sur base du temps, de l’aspect, du mode, de la polarite et du type de proposition (p. ex. principale/ relative). Si l’interet se porte essentiellement sur les melodies tonales du theme, des complications proviennent des prefixes qui precedent et qui peuvent deplacer leur ton H vers la syllabe initiale du theme. Le systeme etant totalement different de celui que l’on trouve dans le luganda, mieux connu, il est particulierement interessant pour notre comprehension de l’evolution des systemes tonals de cette sous-region.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74976011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melodic verb tone patterns in Jita","authors":"L. Downing","doi":"10.3406/aflin.2014.1026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/aflin.2014.1026","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article illustre les schemes tonals melodiques et non melodiques du verbe en jita. On trouve plusieurs schemes melodiques : a penultieme Haute, a finale Haute et a initiale Haute/ finale Haute, ainsi qu’un scheme «chaotique » combinant les precedents au sein d’une seule inflexion en fonction de la longueur du theme verbal et de son ton lexical. Les schemes tonals verbaux que presente le jita sont pratiquement identiques a ceux du ruri proche. Cependant, comme le soutient Goldsmith (1987), les modeles tonals melodiques jita/ ruri se distinguent de ceux des autres langues bantu lacustres de plusieurs facons, ce qui les rend particulierement interessants pour les bantuistes comparatistes qui etudient les tons verbaux des langues de cette region.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81180142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristopher J. Ebarb, Christopher R. Green, M. Marlo
{"title":"Luyia tone melodies","authors":"Kristopher J. Ebarb, Christopher R. Green, M. Marlo","doi":"10.3406/AFLIN.2014.1027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/AFLIN.2014.1027","url":null,"abstract":"Dans cet article, nous livrons une vue generale des melodies tonales kuria, remarquables par les positions qu’occupe le H melodique, en ce compris les troisieme et quatrieme mores du macrotheme verbal. Pour certains locuteurs, les mores du mot qui suit le verbe font partie de la representation lorsque le H melodique est assigne au verbe. Nous traitons egalement de certaines complications que les formes verbales imperatives et certaines formes negatives imposent au systeme melodique, et qui comprennent des differences dans l’application des schemes normalement reguliers de propagation et dans la realisation du H melodique sur la voyelle finale.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85628465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph Koni Muluwa, Hugues Calixte Eyi Ndong, J. Degreef, K. Bostoen
{"title":"Champignons consommés par les Pygmées du Gabon : Analyse linguistique des myconymes baka et kóya","authors":"Joseph Koni Muluwa, Hugues Calixte Eyi Ndong, J. Degreef, K. Bostoen","doi":"10.3406/AFLIN.2013.1019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/AFLIN.2013.1019","url":null,"abstract":"Le present article porte sur le vocabulaire relatif a quatre cents specimens de champignons representatifs de 29 taxons comestibles qui ont ete collectes parmi deux communautes pygmees du Gabon : les Baka et les Bakoya. Ce vocabulaire myconymique specifique en koya (langue bantoue) et baka (langue oubanguienne) designant les memes especes de champignons est analyse sur les plans formel et semantique. Cette analyse linguistique devoile les strategies lexicales dont les deux populations forestieres se sont servies pour denommer les champignons qu’ils consomment ainsi que les motivations semantiques et les mecanismes cognitifs quiles sous‑tendent. Il est aussi demontre que le koya et le baka ne partagent aucun myconyme, ce qui aurait pu etre l’indice de la subsistance d’une langue pygmee d’origine, perdue au profit des langues bantoues et oubanguiennes empruntees.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89169217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the origin of the royal Kongo title ngangula","authors":"K. Bostoen, Odjas Ndonda Tshiyayi, G. D. Schryver","doi":"10.3406/AFLIN.2013.1017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/AFLIN.2013.1017","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers an in-depth historical-comparative linguistic account of the origin and etymology of ngangula. This term is not only a widespread blacksmith term in the Lower Congo region, but also a traditional royal Kongo title attesting to the importance of the blacksmith metaphor in Kongo political ideology. Popular etymology has it that ngangula is related to nganga, reconstructed in Proto-Bantu as *-ganga and commonly translated as 'mcdicinc-man'. It is argued here that this widely held belief does not stand up to scrutiny. The term ngangula is shown to be derived from the common Bantu verb *pangod- meaning 4to cut; to separate'. Thanks to a distinctive diachronic sound change, it is even possible to locate quite precisely the term's origin within the Kikongo dialcct continuum. Its provenance gives new credibility to an earlier but discarded hypothesis situating the origins of the Kongo kingdom in the eastern part of the Lower Congo, somewhere in-between the Inkisi and Kwango Rivers.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87972369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Verb tone in Bantu languages: micro‑typological patterns and research methods","authors":"M. Marlo","doi":"10.3406/aflin.2013.1020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/aflin.2013.1020","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article decrit une methodologie d’etude de la tonologie verbale complexe qui caracterise generalement les langues bantu a travers une sollicitation systematique des donnees paradigmatiques. Le principal objectif de ce travail est la delimitation des facteurs connus comme ayant une influence sur les realisations tonales dans les langues bantu, en fournissant les bases d’une micro-typologie des systemes tonals verbaux de ces langues et en debattant de l’impact de ces considerations sur la facon de proceder a la collecte de donnees.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84840193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}