Diversity in African languages: Selected papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics [PDF]
, 2017 Diversity in African Languages contains a selection of revised papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Oregon.
Ahland, Colleen +39 more
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Competing scripts: the introduction of the Roman alphabet in Africa [PDF]
, 2008 The introduction of the Roman script since the turn of the 20th century was the first attempt of mass alphabetization in Africa, and it has become the most important writing system. It was, however, not the first script on the continent. In Old Egypt and
Pasch, Helma
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Tonologie du mandinka du Pakaawu [PDF]
, 2020 Cet article décrit le système tonal du mandinka du Pakaawu. Ce parler se caractérise notamment par l’importance du poids syllabique dans le conditionnement des phénomènes tonals et par des alternances tonales systématiques à la finale des mots très ...
Creissels, Denis
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A survey of word‑level replacive tonal patterns in Western Mande [PDF]
, 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
Green, Christopher R.
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Interacting tonal processes in Susu [PDF]
, 2017 Susu, like a number of other Mande languages, displays tonal melody neutralization in some nominal constructions. This paper illustrates that in addition to the lexical tonal melody of input elements playing a key role in the outcomes of neutralization ...
Anderson, Jonathan C. +2 more
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A prosodic perspective on the assignment of tonal melodies to Arabic loanwords in Bambara [PDF]
, 2016 There is a rich descriptive history on Bambara tonology in the published literature (e.g. Bird 1966; Courtenay 1974; Creissels 1978, 1988, 1992; Diarra 1976; Dumestre 1987; Dwyer 1976).
Boutz, Jennifer Hill +1 more
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Word‑level replacive tonal patterns in mande nominal constructions: On Christopher Green’s binary typology [PDF]
, 2018 The paper criticially discusses Green’s (this issue) binary typology of replacive tones in Western Mande nominal constructions. Green’s distinction between the two types of replacive tones in Western Mande is based on the existence of Word 2 to Word 2 ...
Konoshenko, Maria
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Loanwords in Temne : A study of the sources and processes of lexical borrowing in a Sierra Leonean language. [PDF]
, 1971 Loanwords from other African as well as non-African languages form a substantial part of the Temne lexicon. Despite the importance of loanwords in historical and comparative linguistics however, the study of loanwords in African languages has received ...
Turay, Abdul Karim
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Studying Tonal Complexity, with a special reference to Mande languages [PDF]
, 2014 Linguists tend to believe that total complexity of human languages is invariable. In order to test this hypothesis empirically, we need to calculate the complexity in different domains of language structure: phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.
Konoshenko, Maria
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Syncope and the drive towards minimization in Colloquial Bamana [PDF]
, 2009 Data from two varieties of Bamana, a Mande language spoken in West Africa, illustrate that permissible syllable shapes vary between the two types. A comparison of Classic Bamana spoken in Segou, Mali and that spoken by a younger cohort of individuals in ...
Baertsch, Karen +3 more
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