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Predicative possession in Mande languages
MandenkanThis article discusses the typology of predicative possession in Mande languages and compares the diversity observed in this domain across the Mande language family with that observed elsewhere in the world, in particular in the language families of West
Denis Creissels
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A typological rarum in Mande languages: Argument-predicate reversal in nominal predication
Mandenkan, 2022 After a typological overview of the nominal predication constructions found in the Mande languages, this article describes and analyzes in more detail a phenomenon found in the nominal predication constructions of Mandinka and some other Mande languages ...
Denis Creissels
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Building semantic maps for closely related languages: Words for ‘grain’ and their kin in South Mande
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2022 This study is an exercise in micro-scale comparison based on the semantic map approach. A semantic map is constructed for meanings associated with the word for ‘grain’ in four closely related South Mande languages: Dan Blowo, Tura, Mwan, and Wan ...
Nikitina Tatiana
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Numeral systems in Mande languages
Mandenkan, 2020 In the paper, eight Mande counting systems (Modern and Old Bamana, Boko, Dzuungoo, Mwan, Dan-Gwɛɛtaa, San-Maka, Soninke) are analyzed in detail, followed by the presentation of a summary table for 30 languages representing all the groups of the Mande ...
Elena Perekhvalskaya, Valentin Vydrin
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Common Ground in Demonstrative Reference: The Case of Mano (Mande). [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 That demonstratives often have endophoric functions marking referents outside the physical space of interaction but accessible through cognition, especially memory, is well-known.
Khachaturyan M.
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A survey of word‑level replacive tonal patterns in Western Mande
Mandenkan, 2018 Word‑level replacive tonal patterns are characteristic of the tonology of many Western Mande languages. Such patterns are explicitly discussed in extant descriptions of some languages but mentioned only in passing or not at all for others. This survey of
Christopher R. Green
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Language in Africa, 2020 Although the Mande languages are usually characterized as analytic, they demonstrate a broader spectrum of typological features. For instance, Gban (South Mande) was analyzed as having evident infl ective elements.
A. Zheltov
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Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers
Mandenkan, 2022 This paper explores the nature and realization of tonal head marking (THM) in endocentric compounds headed by nominal stems in Mande. In Mande, a compound’s head is most often revalued by a tune or melody that expones the head/dependent relationship ...
Christopher R. Green, Maria Konoshenko
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Mandenkan, 2021 This dictionary includes approximately 2,400 entries and contains lexical data on the Guro language, which belongs to the Southern Mande group of the Niger-Congo language family (Côte d'Ivoire).
Olga Kuznetsova, Natalia Kuznetsova
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Mandenkan, 2022 This publication is a bilingual Mano–French dictionary, with a brief introduction containing the basic information on Mano and a French–Mano finder list. The dictionary is based primarily on the data from the Maa dialect of Guinea.
Maria Khachaturyan +2 more
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