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On the grammaticalization of ġādi in Moroccan Arabic: new insights 摩洛哥阿拉伯语中ġādi 的语法化：新见解
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2024-2003
Cristiana Bozza
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A diachronic perspective on ‘prosodies’ in Central Chadic languages (Afroasiatic) 中乍得语（非洲语）"前体 "的非同步视角
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2024-2002
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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Resuming topics and foci: Anyi, Baule and microvariation in Kwa languages 恢复主题和重点：克瓦语中的阿尼语、鲍勒语和微变异
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2024-2004
Stavros Skopeteas, Firmin Ahoua, Marie Laure Koffi Bla Adou, Beatrice Koffi Mambo
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Tone and clause structure in Bùlì Bùlì 中的语气和分句结构
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2024-2001
Abdul-Razak Sulemana
{"title":"Tone and clause structure in Bùlì","authors":"Abdul-Razak Sulemana","doi":"10.1515/jall-2024-2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2024-2001","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I analyze tonal patterns of Bùlì (Mabia/Gur) verbs in sentences. I argue that Bùlì requires a more articulated structure for TP, namely, a projection of both INFL1 and INFL2. INFL1 corresponds to the standard TP and is the locus of the EPP. INFL2, on the other hand, is the locus of a generalized finite/non-finite marking on the clause. I show that this more articulated structure for TP is key in understanding the intricate tonal interactions we find in the clause between segmental and tonal morphology of negation, tense, and aspect marking.","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141722615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Review article: messages from (not so distant) relatives in the Nuba Mountains: on how (not) to reconstruct Proto-Bantu 评论文章:来自(不太遥远的)努巴山亲戚的信息:关于如何(不)重建原班图人
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2023-2012
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
{"title":"Review article: messages from (not so distant) relatives in the Nuba Mountains: on how (not) to reconstruct Proto-Bantu","authors":"Gerrit J. Dimmendaal","doi":"10.1515/jall-2023-2012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2023-2012","url":null,"abstract":"The rich morphological systems and discourse-based syntactic structures of a range of modern Bantu languages have attracted the attention of many linguists. The present contribution takes articles in a volume on the reconstruction of Proto-Bantu grammar edited by Bostoen et al. (2022. On Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar, Niger-Congo Comparative Studies 4. Berlin: Language Science Press. 808 pp. <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" ext-link-type=\"doi\" xlink:href=\"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7560553\">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7560553</jats:ext-link>) as a basis, in order to address the origin of these grammatical properties. More specifically, historical as well as synchronic features of Bantu languages are compared with Tima, a related language spoken in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan, and classified as a member of the Kordofanian family within Niger-Congo by Greenberg. Contrary to a popular view, it is claimed here that subject inversion and corresponding (extended) ergative alignment marking with transitive verbs is not only a property of Tima as a Niger-Congo language, but also of several Niger-Congo languages classified as Bantu. Tima consequently may perform a role similar to that of Tocharian in the history of Indo-European studies. The present contribution also raises methodological issues related to lexicon-based Bayesian phylogenetics as against Greenberg’s method of multilateral comparisons, and the historical-comparative method. In addition, it addresses the question of the extent to which the spread of typological features coincides with so-called “belts” postulated in the typological literature on African languages.","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138527500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Wolof argument-focus constructions as copulaless clefts Wolof论元聚焦结构的无性裂
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2023-2011
Corentin Bourdeau
{"title":"The Wolof argument-focus constructions as copulaless clefts","authors":"Corentin Bourdeau","doi":"10.1515/jall-2023-2011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2023-2011","url":null,"abstract":"In Wolof (Niger-Congo), focus is expressed morphosyntactically via specific focus constructions. This article deals with two of them, namely the <jats:italic>subject-focus</jats:italic> and the <jats:italic>complement-focus</jats:italic> constructions. I propose to analyse them as copulaless cleft constructions of the form <jats:sc>focus | topic</jats:sc>, that is, constructions in which the focus and the topic are juxtaposed. In such clefts, the topic of the sentence is expressed by means of a noun phrase which is headed by the definite article la when the focus corresponds to the syntactic object, and by the morpheme a when the focus corresponds to the syntactic subject of the sentence.","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"14 3-4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138527489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
The noncausal/causal alternation in Kagulu, an East Ruvu Bantu language of Tanzania 坦桑尼亚东鲁乌班图语Kagulu的非因果/因果交替
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2023-2008
Sebastian Dom, Leora Bar-el, Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo, Malin Petzell
{"title":"The noncausal/causal alternation in Kagulu, an East Ruvu Bantu language of Tanzania","authors":"Sebastian Dom, Leora Bar-el, Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo, Malin Petzell","doi":"10.1515/jall-2023-2008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2023-2008","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the formal correspondences between the members of verb pairs participating in the noncausal/causal alternation in Kagulu, a Bantu language from Tanzania. Our investigation shows that Kagulu has a predominance of equipollent verb pairs, with the anticausative and causative correspondences following close behind. We argue that, diachronically, the causative correspondence was much more prominent than it is in present-day Kagulu. However, due to morphophonological changes triggered by the historical causative suffix *-i, a significant number of verb pairs that are diachronically causative can be synchronically reanalyzed as equipollent. This study highlights the complexity of diachronic morphology in synchronic analyses of comparative-typological phenomena such as the noncausal/causal alternation, and contributes to the growing body of research on noncausal/causal verb pairs in African languages.","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"46 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138527503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Preverbal clitic clusters in the Tanzanian Rift Valley revisited 坦桑尼亚大裂谷的口前气候集群再次出现
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2023-2010
Andrew Harvey, Hannah Gibson, Richard Griscom
{"title":"Preverbal clitic clusters in the Tanzanian Rift Valley revisited","authors":"Andrew Harvey, Hannah Gibson, Richard Griscom","doi":"10.1515/jall-2023-2010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2023-2010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines preverbal clitic clusters in the Tanzanian Rift Valley, an area of high linguistic diversity with representatives of the Bantu, Cushitic, and Nilotic families, as well as Sandawe (possibly a distant member of the Khoi-Kwadi family), and the language isolate Hadza. An earlier work (Kießling, Roland, Maarten Mous &amp; Derek Nurse. 2008. The Tanzanian Rift Valley area. In Bernd Heine &amp; Derek Nurse (eds.), <jats:italic>A linguistic geography of Africa</jats:italic>, 186–227. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) identified preverbal clitic clusters as a widespread feature across many languages of the Rift Valley, and posited the preverbal clitic cluster as a feature characteristic of a ‘Tanzanian Rift Valley Area’. The current paper provides further detail on preverbal clitic clusters across the languages of the region and examines possible routes of development for these structures. From this analysis, the picture that emerges is complex: contact scenarios cannot be restricted to ones in which West Rift Cushitic or its predecessor languages are the only models for the development of a preverbal clitic cluster and, in the case of Sandawe (and perhaps the Datooga varieties), it appears as if the development of a preverbal clitic cluster cannot be linked to contact at all. In terms of what this means for the ‘areality’ of the Tanzanian Rift Valley, this paper forgoes discussions about geographical delineation or arguments for or against a ‘Tanzanian Rift Valley Area’ in favour of highlighting the individual historical events (c.f. Campbell, Lyle. 2017. Why is it so hard to define a linguistic area? In Raymond Hickey (ed.), <jats:italic>The Cambridge handbook of areal linguistics</jats:italic>, 19–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) that may have given rise to preverbal clitic clusters in the languages of our sample, as well as encouraging continued investigation into the nature of these histories, both from a linguistic and interdisciplinary perspective.","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"96 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138527548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Editorial: JALL welcomes new Editors 社论：JALL 欢迎新编辑
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2023-2013
F. Ameka
{"title":"Editorial: JALL welcomes new Editors","authors":"F. Ameka","doi":"10.1515/jall-2023-2013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2023-2013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"55 1","pages":"127 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139325943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Serge Sagna: Cross-Categorial Classification. Nouns and Verbs in Eegimaa 塞尔吉-萨尼亚跨类别分类。Eegimaa 中的名词和动词
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2023-2009
Olivier Bondéelle
{"title":"Serge Sagna: Cross-Categorial Classification. Nouns and Verbs in Eegimaa","authors":"Olivier Bondéelle","doi":"10.1515/jall-2023-2009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2023-2009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"156 1","pages":"283 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139330594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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