Journal of African Languages and Linguistics最新文献_第6页

Position et location en peul, l’usage de ka au Fouta Djallon peul的位置和位置，使用ka au Fouta Djallon

IF 0.5 4区文学

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2020-2002

Abdourahmane Diallo

引用次数: 0

Operator focus in discourse and grammar: The two perfectives in Kakabe 语篇和语法中的算子焦点：《Kakabe》中的两个完成词

IF 0.5 4区文学

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2020-2005

A. Vydrina

引用次数: 4

Moraic preservation and equivalence in Gújjolaay Eegimaa perfective reduplication Gújjolai-Eegimaa完成重叠中的Moraic保持与等价

IF 0.5 4区文学

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2020-2003

Abbie Hantgan, Serge Sagna, Stuart Davis

{"title":"Moraic preservation and equivalence in Gújjolaay Eegimaa perfective reduplication","authors":"Abbie Hantgan, Serge Sagna, Stuart Davis","doi":"10.1515/jall-2020-2003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2020-2003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The role of syllable weight in Gújjolaay Eegimaa, an Atlantic language spoken in south-western Senegal, is evidenced by reduplicative patterns in the perfective stem, where we witness a difference in the surface representation of verb roots with underlying voiced obstruents from those with underlying voiceless obstruents. We argue that voiced plosives are weight bearing and therefore considered as moraic when in coda position in this language. We attribute the triggering of the gemination in the reduplicative perfective with roots having final voiced plosives to compensatory lengthening in order to make up for the loss of a mora as motivated by Hayes (1989). Gemination, rather than vowel lengthening, occurs because, as stated by de Chene and Anderson (1979) compensatory lengthening of vowels only occurs in a language where vowel length is contrastive. In this paper, we show evidence to support the proposition that there are no long vowels in this variety of Eegimaa, and therefore gemination (which is a contrastive feature in the language) is the repair strategy employed to compensate for the loss of a mora. Through a description of the weight-related processes observed in perfective reduplication in Eegimaa, we will detail the moraic analysis of the various patterns and discuss general phonological implications.","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"41 1","pages":"29 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/jall-2020-2003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45141853","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

Phonological tone. (Key topics in phonology) 语音音调。（音韵学中的关键主题）

IF 0.5 4区文学

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2020-2006

V. Beavon-Ham

引用次数: 0

JALL 41(1) JALL 41（1）

IF 0.5 4区文学

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2020-2001

Felix K. Ameka, Azeb Amha

引用次数: 0

A description of the Xhosa construction ya ‘go’ plus subordinate imperfective 关于Xhosa结构ya‘go’加从属不完全性的描述

IF 0.5 4区文学

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2020-2004

Bastian Persohn

{"title":"A description of the Xhosa construction ya ‘go’ plus subordinate imperfective","authors":"Bastian Persohn","doi":"10.1515/jall-2020-2004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2020-2004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper offers a descriptive analysis of an aspectual periphrasis in Xhosa (Bantu S41). The construction in question consists of a form of ya ‘go’ plus a verb in the subordinate imperfective paradigm. It is argued that this construction works at the level of actionality (“lexical aspect” or “aktionsart”), rather than constituting an aspectual operator sensu stricto. The overall actional profile of this verbal unit is that of a degree achievement (Dowty 1979) or directed activity (Croft 2012), i.e. a process of change along a property scale. This change is construed as involving a plurality of successive steps. The contribution of the lexical item and its arguments is that of a property scale and/or target state. Throughout the description remarkable semantic parallels to a structure-wise comparable construction in Spanish (Romance, Indoeuropean) are pointed out. These structural and semantic parallels have implications for an oft-mentioned grammaticalization path leading from a motion-based construction to a marker of progressive aspect (Heine and Kuteva 2002, among others). The description of the construction is complemented by a note on a frequent collocation with an instrumental infinitive of the same verb stem.","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"41 1","pages":"57 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/jall-2020-2004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48956546","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

African youth languages: New media, performing arts & sociolinguistic development 非洲青年语言:新媒体、表演艺术与社会语言学发展

IF 0.5 4区文学

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2020-2007

Cheng Chen, Le Cheng

引用次数: 9

Frontmatter Frontmatter

IF 0.5 4区文学

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-11 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-frontmatter2

引用次数: 0

Vanderelst, John: A grammar of Dagik, A Kordofanian language of Sudan 约翰·范德斯特:《苏丹科尔多凡语达吉克语语法》

IF 0.5 4区文学

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0012

Nicolas Quint

引用次数: 5

The syntax and semantics of helping: Sociative causation in Kinande 帮助的句法和语义:基南德语的联想因果关系

IF 0.5 4区文学

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0011

Patricia Schneider-Zioga, P. Mutaka

{"title":"The syntax and semantics of helping: Sociative causation in Kinande","authors":"Patricia Schneider-Zioga, P. Mutaka","doi":"10.1515/jall-2019-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2019-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We investigate the syntax and semantics of the sociative causative in Kinande (D42), a Bantu language spoken in eastern DRC. We present our discovery that Kinande, apparently unique among Bantu languages, grammaticalizes this type of causation with a specialized morpheme. In sociative causatives, the causer causes through social interaction rather than physical manipulation (direct causation) or words (indirect causation). We propose sociative causation in Kinande more exactly means ‘y carries out a subevent of P to help x do P.’ Helping here is by doing and is not comitative: rather, it is partitive – each actor does part of the action. This accounts for the classes of verbs that can undergo sociative causation. We establish that the construction is mono-clausal and note that the sociative morpheme is closely related to the benefactive applied morpheme. A second extension that occurs in this construction marks transitivity. We observe that the transitive extension can co-occur with the passive extension which tells us there is more than one voice projection in Kinande. Finally, we look more closely at the partitive reading of the caused event and note that the partitivity can be morpho-syntactically manifested either through partitive marking of the object of the caused event or through partitive marking of the caused event itself.","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"40 1","pages":"271 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/jall-2019-0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47466694","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: 3