Likpakpaln（Konkomba）中的形容词：结构和区域类型学方面

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Matters Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI:10.1080/10228195.2020.1746386

Abraham Bisilki, K. Yakpo

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摘要Likpakpaln是加纳北部一种很少被描述的马比亚语。根据原始数据，这项对Likpaparn形容词的首次研究得出结论，该语言有一个约20名成员的小型封闭形容词类，在不同程度上与名词和动词具有相同的语法特性。与其他马比亚语言的情况相反，利帕克帕恩形容词缺乏固有的类标记。我们确定了三种类型的形容词，从形态、句法和语义的角度与名词和动词区分开来。类型1项倾向于名词，从不充当动词从句的谓语。类型2由一个项目组成，可能是一个借词，出现在具有大形容词类的语言的典型谓语形容词结构中。第三类形容词倾向于动词，可能构成动词从句的谓语。了解Likpaparn形容词有助于完善我们目前对Likpapann在Mabia家族中的遗传和类型定位的了解。

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Adjectives in Likpakpaln (Konkomba): Structural and Areal-Typological Aspects

Abstract Likpakpaln is a little-described Mabia (Gur) language of northern Ghana. Drawing on primary data, this first study of adjectives in Likpakpaln concludes that the language has a small, closed adjective class of about 20 members that shares grammatical properties with nouns and verbs to varying degrees. Contrary to what is the case in other Mabia languages, Likpakpaln adjectives lack inherent class markers. We identify three types of adjectives, distinguishable from nouns and verbs on morpho-syntactic and semantic grounds. Type 1 items lean towards nouns and never function as predicates of verbal clauses. Type 2 consists of one item, possibly a loan, and appears in a predicate adjective construction typical of languages with large adjective classes. Type 3 adjectives lean towards verbs and may form the predicate of verbal clauses. An understanding of Likpakpaln adjectives can contribute to refining our current knowledge of the genetic and typological position of Likpakpaln in the Mabia family.

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期刊介绍： The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees. Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.