{"title":"Ikoma Nominal Tone","authors":"Lotta Aunio","doi":"10.3406/AFLIN.2010.986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/AFLIN.2010.986","url":null,"abstract":"L’ikoma est une langue bantu lacustre parlee dans le district de Serengeti, dans la region de Mara (Tanzanie occidentale) referencee E(J) 45 dans la classification de Guthrie (mise a jour par Maho). L’ikoma fait usage a la fois de tons lexicaux et grammaticaux. Mais les constructions nominales sont les seules qui manifestent des contrastes tonals. Ces constructions et les regles tonales qui s’y appliquent sont traitees dans cet article. Nous montrerons que la tonologie nominale de l’ikoma est plus complexe que celle typique des systemes tonals restreints que l’on rencontre dans d’autres langues bantu de cette region.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":"109 1","pages":"3-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87556648","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":"A Bantu path towards lack of differentiation between ‘who?’ and ‘what?’","authors":"Dmitry Idiatov","doi":"10.3406/AFLIN.2009.1002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/AFLIN.2009.1002","url":null,"abstract":"L’article formule, dans une perspective typologique, une hypothese pour expliquer l’absence de differentiation entre ‘ qui ?’ et ‘ quoi ?’ dans de nombreuses langues bantoues de la zone C. Il soutient que les interrogatifs generaux ‘ qui ?/ quoi ?’, en zone C, ainsi que ‘ qui ?’ dans de nombreuses autres langues bantoues – generalement reconstruits comme * n(d) a(n) i ‘ qui ?’ – se sont developpes a partir d’un interrogatif selectif signifiant ‘ lequel ?’ et finalement a partir d’une construction locative a sens interrogatif *[ ag9(or ag7) cop cl16 ‘ quoi ?’] ‘(cela) est ou ?’ Sur le plan formel, cette derniere construction a subi par la suite un processus d’univerbation ainsi qu’une reduction formelle avec occasionnellement un renforcement par un theme demonstratif postpose. Une conclusion importante de l’article est que, en protobantou, il n’est pas possible de reconstruire un pronom interrogatif signifiant ‘ qui ?’.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":"138 1","pages":"59-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2009-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78269628","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":"Quelques thèmes pour ‘pirogue’ dans les langues bantoues","authors":"Annelies Bulkens","doi":"10.3406/aflin.2009.1001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/aflin.2009.1001","url":null,"abstract":"A partir d’un corpus de 255 noms relatifs a la pirogue et recoltes dans quelque 200 langues bantoues, l’auteur a selectionne quatre themes nominaux qu’elle analyse en profondeur sur le plan formel et semantique. L’etude aboutit a certaines conclusions interessantes aussi bien sur le plan theorique qu’historique. Tout d’abord, les donnees falsifient l’ancienne hypothese, selon laquelle, en protobantou, les themes nominaux avaient invariablement une initiale consonantique. Au contraire, dans la protolangue, la structure canonique *-CV(CV) devait coexister avec une structure *-VCV. Sur le plan de l’histoire culturelle, la distribution comparee des quatre racines selectionnees est revelatrice. A cote d’une racine tres ancienne pour '' pirogue'', repandue dans tout le domaine bantou a l’exception de l’extreme sud, des innovations ont surgi dans les deux regions cotieres et sur le cours du fleuve Congo, mettant ainsi en evidence l’influence que les populations specialisees dans la navigation et/ ou la peche ont sur l’evolution du lexique.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":"66 1","pages":"27-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77017304","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":"Khayo verbal tonology","authors":"M. Marlo","doi":"10.3406/aflin.2009.1003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/aflin.2009.1003","url":null,"abstract":"L’article decrit et analyse le systeme tonal du verbe en khayo. Le khayo est un dialecte du luyia (bantou, Kenya et Ouganda, J30) qui, jusqu’ici, n’avait pas encore ete decrit. L’article fournit une description systematique de la marque tonale dans la polarite ‘ temps-aspect-mode’ et dans les differents types de phrases verbales ainsi que des alternances tonales qui sont determinees par les prefixes a ton H et par la prosodie propre aux differents radicaux verbaux. Le premier defi analytique pose par le khayo est de rendre compte des differences melodiques qui resultent de l’application des regles tonales. Il existe de nombreux contextes dans lesquels les regles definies pour une melodie ne s’appliquent pas a une autre, meme lorsque l’environnement phonologique est identique. La presente analyse montre que ces differences resultent de regles tonales morphologiques dont l’ordonnance est differente des regles tonales generales.","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":"21 1","pages":"77-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83801835","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":"Explaining the role of the morphological continuum in Bantu spirantisation","authors":"L. Downing","doi":"10.3406/AFLIN.2007.971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/AFLIN.2007.971","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":"45 1","pages":"53-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84802797","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":"L’influence des voyelles sur les évolutions des consonnes en tswana (S31)","authors":"D. Creissels","doi":"10.3406/AFLIN.2007.970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/AFLIN.2007.970","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":"23 1","pages":"33-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82155297","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":"Bantu spirantisation as an areal change","authors":"T. Janson","doi":"10.3406/AFLIN.2007.972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/AFLIN.2007.972","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":"17 1","pages":"79-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81173938","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":"Verbal system and diathesis derivations in Seereer","authors":"Souleymane Faye, M. Mous","doi":"10.3406/AFLIN.2006.963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/AFLIN.2006.963","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41483,"journal":{"name":"Africana Linguistica","volume":"29 1","pages":"89-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84642320","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}