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Dàgáárè complex constructions: Serial verb constructions, multi-aspectual constructions and coordination Dàgáárè复杂结构：连续动词结构、多方面结构和协调
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0009
Alexander Angsongna
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引用次数: 1
Snider, Keith: Tone analysis for field linguists Keith Snider:《面向语言学家的语气分析》
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0013
David Roberts
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引用次数: 1
External possession of body-part nouns in Jumjum: Possessor raising with possessum incorporation Jumjum中身体部位名词的外部占有：占有人与占有人的结合
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0008
Torben Andersen
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引用次数: 0
Kuvale: A Bantu language of southwestern Angola 库瓦莱语:安哥拉西南部班图语的一种
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0010
Anne-Maria Fehn
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引用次数: 1
A microtypological survey of noun classes in Kwa 贵州名词类的微观类型学调查
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0004
M. Konoshenko, Dasha Shavarina
{"title":"A microtypological survey of noun classes in Kwa","authors":"M. Konoshenko, Dasha Shavarina","doi":"10.1515/jall-2019-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2019-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper provides an overview of noun class systems in a sample of 20 Kwa languages. It focuses on the synchronic productivity of noun classification in Kwa as opposed to the full-fledged class system assumed for Proto-Kwa and for the general “Niger-Congo prototype” (Good, Jeff. 2012. How to become a “Kwa” noun.” Morphology 22(2). 293–335; Creissels, Denis. Forthcoming. Noun class systems in Atlantic languages. To appear. In Friederike Lüpke (ed.), The Oxford guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press). The productivity of class morphology on nouns is studied by exploring class marker alternations as exponents of other grammatical phenomena: the formation of the plural, diminutive derivation and nominalization. We also discuss class indexation on nominal modifiers (adjectives, numerals, demonstratives and indefinite markers) as well as subject and object pronominals. We demonstrate that Kwa languages tend to follow the typological tendencies pertaining to class marking on nouns and class indexation, e.g. the Agreement hierarchy (Corbett, Greville G. 1979. The agreement hierarchy. Journal of Linguistics 15. 203–224), as established for world languages in general and Niger-Congo family in particular (Good, Jeff. 2012. How to become a “Kwa” noun.” Morphology 22(2). 293–335). However, some intriguing discrepancies, e.g. different patterning of indexation on adjectives vs. on numerals in Kwa as opposed to some other Niger-Congo branches, were also attested. In diachronic perspective, our findings suggest that noun class systems are flexible as they show high intragenetic variation and are easily degradable, but they almost never disappear completely.","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"40 1","pages":"114 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/jall-2019-0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49198527","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
Unaltered morphemes as phonological triggers and targets in Rutooro 未变语素作为语音触发点和目标
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0002
Lee S. Bickmore
{"title":"Unaltered morphemes as phonological triggers and targets in Rutooro","authors":"Lee S. Bickmore","doi":"10.1515/jall-2019-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2019-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Rutooro, a Bantu language spoken in western Uganda, exhibits two processes common to Bantu languages: Mid Vowel Harmony (MVH), by which a high vowel is lowered to mid if it follows a mid root vowel, and Consonant Mutation (CM), by which a high front vowel of certain morphemes trigger a change in the immediately preceding consonant. In forms where both rules could potentially apply, CM applies, but MVH does not, even though its structural description is met. Ultimately, it is shown that MVH is blocked when an alveolar fricative intervenes between the trigger and the target. The most anomalous forms are those that contain the short causative /-i/ and the Perfective suffix /-ir/. In some forms CM would be expected to apply, but does not, and in other forms MVH is expected to be blocked, but is not. The key to the analysis lies in the fact that CM is not a purely phonological process, but rather is only triggered by a small set of specific morphemes. The surface anomalies in the perfect forms can all be accounted for if one formalizes the relevant processes as only being triggered (or blocked) by unaltered [-ir].","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"40 1","pages":"22 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/jall-2019-0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41392530","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: 2
Hunting for signs: Exploring unspoken networks within the Kalahari Basin 寻找迹象:探索喀拉哈里盆地内未说出口的网络
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0005
S. Mohr, Anne-Maria Fehn, Alex de Voogt
{"title":"Hunting for signs: Exploring unspoken networks within the Kalahari Basin","authors":"S. Mohr, Anne-Maria Fehn, Alex de Voogt","doi":"10.1515/jall-2019-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2019-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article we present comparative data on visual hunting signals from the Kalahari Basin Area of southern Africa, encompassing three Kalahari Khoe-speaking (Ts’ixa, Buga, ǁAni) and one Kx’a-speaking group (Juǀ’hoan). For the comparison, an analysis of handshapes, handedness and iconicity in the individual data sets was conducted. Being applied in analyses of gestures and (partly) sign languages, these parameters reveal significant similarities and differences between the individual systems. We find that the systems documented most likely constitute an areal feature that transcends the boundaries of genealogical linguistic affiliation and may ultimately contribute to a better understanding of population contact and local networks in the Kalahari Basin Area Sprachbund.","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"40 1","pages":"115 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/jall-2019-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43081641","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: 4
JALL@40 Editorial JALL@40社论
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0001
F. Ameka, A. Amha
{"title":"JALL@40 Editorial","authors":"F. Ameka, A. Amha","doi":"10.1515/jall-2019-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2019-0001","url":null,"abstract":"The year 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of JALL. As it happens it is also the International Year of Indigenous Languages. A decade ago, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of JALL, our Founding Editor Emeritus, Professor Paul Newman, reminded us of the beginnings of JALL and stressed that JALL is founded above all on empiricism, a “scientifically sound, intellectually sophisticated empiricism” (Newman 2010: 11). In addition, the guiding foundational principle as stated in the journal’s first Editorial Statement was that:","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"40 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/jall-2019-0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43918717","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
Vydrin, Valentin F., Yulia V. Mazurova, Andrej A. Kibrik and Elena B. Markus: Jazyki mira. Jazyki mande [Languages of the World. The Mande Languages]
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0006
P. Arkadiev
{"title":"Vydrin, Valentin F., Yulia V. Mazurova, Andrej A. Kibrik and Elena B. Markus: Jazyki mira. Jazyki mande [Languages of the World. The Mande Languages]","authors":"P. Arkadiev","doi":"10.1515/jall-2019-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2019-0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"40 1","pages":"149 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/jall-2019-0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42059653","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
Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu Proto Kikongo和Proto Bantu的进行元音高度和谐
IF 0.5 4区 文学
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0003
H. Goes, K. Bostoen
{"title":"Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu","authors":"H. Goes, K. Bostoen","doi":"10.1515/jall-2019-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2019-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The systematic comparison of the different types of progressive Vowel Height Harmony (pVHH) attested within the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) leads to the conclusion that this common Bantu process of long-distance assimilation cannot be reconstructed to Proto-Kikongo. The ‘(a)symmetric-pVHH’ and ‘back-pVHH’ patterns, the two main and structurally different kinds of pVHH within the KLC, emerged independently and relatively late within two distinct subgroups, viz. South Kikongo and North Kikongo respectively. Moreover, the ‘(a)symmetric-pVHH’ pattern further spread from a South Kikongo focal area coinciding with the heartland of the Kongo kingdom to other parts of the KLC through contact-induced dialectal diffusion. Furthermore, the historical-comparative evidence from the KLC suggests that neither symmetric nor asymmetric pVHH should be reconstructed to Proto-Bantu, the most recent common ancestor of all Bantu languages.","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":"40 1","pages":"23 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/jall-2019-0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47360833","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: 6
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