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Measuring depression in Wolof-speaking communities using the CESD-10 in rural Senegal [PDF]

BMC Psychiatry
Background Depression is a global issue affecting millions of people worldwide, yet access to validated measures of depressive Symptoms varies greatly, particularly in Sub-Saharan African countries. The study took place between 2013 and 2015 and assesses
Ann M Weber, Lori Skibbe, Anne Fernald
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Analyse typologique et syntaxique du génitif wolof

Corela, 2015
Genitive is a widely studied construction of languages, Wolof included. But, for Wolof, the proposed analyses have no typological reach. Reading these analyses, we could have the feeling that the genitive construction in Wolof is, from a typological ...
Maximilien Guérin
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L’opposition accompli / inaccompli en wolof contemporain

Multilinguales, 2015
How the aspect polarity is encoded in contemporary Wolof? Tackling such an issue and trying to bring a methodological clarification on it, implies a contribution to a better understanding of Wolof verbal system.
Mamadou Cissé
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Écriture en wolof, pratiques glottopolitiques et stratégies de normalisation langagière

Glottopol, 2022
This contribution is a glottopolitical survey of Wolof. We analyzed there literary and linguistic practices for the “vitalization” of the main language of Senegal, which is weaken by the official linguistic policy.
Papa Alioune Ndao, Moussa Diène
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LFG parse disambiguation for Wolof

Journal of Language Modelling, 2014
This paper presents several techniques for managing ambiguity in LFG parsing of Wolof, a less-resourced Niger-Congo language. Ambiguity is pervasive in Wolof and This raises a number of theoretical and practical issues for managing ambiguity associated ...
Cheikh M. Bamba Dione
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Incidences sémantiques de la suffixation sur la réduplication verbale en wolof

Corela, 2015
In Wolof, conjugation is realized using an invariable lexical basis to which are attached affixes carrying marks of IPAM (e.g. in French : Indice ; Personne ; Aspect-Temps ; Mode) (Perrin 2005 : 22) and highlighting semantic and grammatical roles ...
Augustin NDIONE
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Enseignement de la grammaire wolof dans les foyers arabo-islamiques au Sénégal [PDF]

Ziglôbitha, 2023
Résumé : Présent au Sénégal depuis le XIe siècle, l’Islam et sa culture par l’intermédiaire de son enseignement ont eu un impact sérieux sur la vie religieuse, sociale, culturelle, politique et économique.
Babacar NIANE & Birame SARR
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A Syntactic Account for Zero Denominal and Deverbal Verbs in Wolof [PDF]

Anadiss, 2023
Denominal verbs are verbs formed from nouns by means of various word-formation processes. A deverbal is a word (usually a noun or an adjective) that is derived from a verb. This article aims to investigate denominals and deverbals in Wolof.
SECK, Mamarame
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Ken Bugul’s Language: Its Formation and Characteristics

Literatūra (Vilnius), 2023
The aim of this article is to analyse Ken Bugul’s written language and its specificities. This Senegalese writer, like most French-speaking authors, has had to define her own written language, which becomes a mixture of French, the language of the ...
Edyta Sacharewicz
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Rhythm-Speech Correlations in a Corpus of Senegalese Drum Language

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
In some African cultures, drumming is used for expressing linguistic meanings. Our research focuses on Senegalese musical traditions of encoding linguistic messages on the sabar drums. Senegalese drummers have the practice of playing drums in correlation
Sofiya Ros
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