Results 1 to 10 of about 8,630 (204)
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
doaj +3 more sources
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
doaj +3 more sources
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
doaj +3 more sources
Ajami script for the Mande languages [PDF]
, 2014 Arabic-based (Ajami) writing has been used for Mande languages, most probably, since the times of the Ancient Mali (13-16 centuries). It is still in use among Mandinka in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea Bissau, among Susu and Mogofin in Guinea, and to a ...
Vydrin, Valentin
core +4 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
Phonology in the basilect the fate of final consonants in Liberian Interior English
Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 Pidginized Liberian Interior English (LIE) has English as its lexifier language and Mande languages as its substrate. Broadly speaking, this means that LIE takes its lexicon from English and its phonology from Mande.
John Victor Singler
doaj +3 more sources
DEVELOPMENT OF SPONTANEOUS MANDING IN LANGUAGE DEFICIENT CHILDREN [PDF]
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1980 Six institutionalized children, aged 7–11, with little or no spontaneous vocal manding, were trained to request food items under appropriate natural conditions when snacks were presented. “I want a” was appropriate when an adult presented food in the playroom.
J, Simic, B, Bucher
openaire +2 more sources
Goo : présentation d’une langue
Mandenkan, 2013 Up to now, Goo (spoken in a dozen of villages to the north of Man, western Côte d’Ivoire) was mentioned, if at all, as either a dialect of Tura, or a “mixture of Dan and Tura”.
Valentin Vydrin
doaj +1 more source