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Directive and optative clauses in Manding languages
Mandenkan, 2023 This article discusses the structure of directive and optative clauses in Manding languages. The discussion mainly relies on a comparison between the two Manding languages for which detailed data on directive and optative clauses are available: Mandinka and Bambara.
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Mandenkan, 2020 This paper is a bilingual Goo–French dictionary. Being only a first approach to the vocabulary of Goo, the dictionary contains approximately 1200 words and expressions in Goo translated into French, irregular grammatical forms, illustrative examples and ...
Ekaterina Aplonova
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A sketch of dialectal variation in Mano
Mandenkan, 2018 This paper gives a preliminary account of the dialectal situation of Mano, a South Mande language. Mano has at least three varieties in Guinea and three varieties in Liberia. The focus of the paper is a comparison between the central Guinean dialect, Maa,
Maria Khachaturyan
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La catégorie des verbes statifs dans le système morphosyntaxique du soninké
Mandenkan, 2018 This article describes a lexical category found in Soninke that has been neglected so far. The general characteristics of this category are similar to those of the "stative verbs" found in Manding languages.
Denis Creissels
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A typological portrait of Mano, Southern Mande
, 2020 This paper provides a typological survey of Mano, a Mande language of Guinea and Liberia. It sketches a linguistic portrait of Mano as a representative member of the Southern branch of the Mande family.
M. Khachaturyan
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Revenge of the spoken word? : Writing, performance, and new media in urban West Africa [PDF]
, 2011 Why would any verbal artists bother to strongly identify themselves as writers when their own works circulate exclusively in a performative mode? Why would they bother to identify with writing in settings where literacy levels are low, traditional ...
Adejunmobi, Moradewun
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The detransitivizing suffix -i and the reconstruction of Pre-Proto-Mande constituent order
Language in Africa, 2020 The uniformity and total rigidity of the SOVX constituent order across Mande languages constitutes a typological oddity, which led several scholars to discuss the possibility of analyzing it as historically derived from a typologically more common ...
Denis Creissels
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]
, 2017 Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
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Polyfunctional pronominal markers in South-Western Mande [PDF]
, 2014 http://www.nytud.hu/imm16/abs-vol-full-v1.pdfInternational audienceThe paper deals with the syntactic functions and morphosyntactic features of polyfunctional (PF) pronominal markers in South-Western Mande (SWM) languages.
Mishchenko, Daria
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