Ergative/Absolutive and Active/Stative alignment in West Africa: The case of Southwestern Mande
| Autor: | Valentin Vydrin |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire (LLACAN), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-11-IDEX-0005,USPC,Université Sorbonne Paris Cité(2011), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
History Kpelle [SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature Communication Looma ergativity Class (philosophy) Closed class Semantic alignment mandé Language and Linguistics Linguistics West africa Resultative Mende Ergative case Absolutive case Argument (linguistics) [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics semantic alignment Southwestern Mande languages |
| Zdroj: | Studies in Language Studies in Language, John Benjamins Publishing, 2011, 35 (2), pp.409-443 HAL Studies in Language, John Benjamins Publishing, 2011, 2 (35), pp.409-443 |
| ISSN: | 0378-4177 |
| Popis: | International audience; It is usually believed that non-accusative alignment systems are very rare in Africa. A thorough study of the verbal systems of the Southwestern Mande languages (Looma, Mende, Kpelle) has shown that this group is an exception. The Ergative/Absolutive types of argument coding and semantic alignment are observed in these languages mainly in the personal marking on the verbs. In the Liberian dialects of Looma, only stative verbs (belonging to a closed class) show non-accusative encoding, which can be interpreted as an S-split. In Mende, an Active/Stative type of argument indexing is attested on the verbs of an open class. All the verbs in the stative/resultative/perfect construction in Northern Looma and in the stative/resultative/intensive construction in Kpelle display Ergative/Absolutive alignment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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