The Bua Group noun class system: Looking for a historical interpretation
| Autor: | Pascal Boyeldieu, Raimund Kastenholz, Florian Lionnet, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz (JGU), Princeton University, Boyeldieu, Pascal |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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History
Adamawa languages media_common.quotation_subject suffi x determiner 050105 experimental psychology Noun class Noun morphology Determiner Historical linguistics 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics Association (psychology) media_common 060201 languages & linguistics Interpretation (logic) 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts Bua languages [SHS.LANGUE] Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics Linguistics Agreement historical linguistics stacking 0602 languages and literature Independence (mathematical logic) noun classes agreement |
| Zdroj: | Language in Africa (Moscow & St Petersburg) Language in Africa (Moscow & St Petersburg), 2020, Special issue on the Adamawa languages, 1 (3), pp.181-215 |
| Popis: | International audience; The way Bua languages express number on nouns mostly consists ofalternating suffi xes that bear witness of a former classifi cation system. However,Kulaal is the only present-day language where these markers are not frozen butactually trigger agreement with free, optional determiners that follow the noun andmay show some formal affi nity with its suffi x. For several reasons, previous attemptsat reconstructing a historical noun morphology common to all Bua languagesconsidered the sole suffi xes and neglected the determiners present in Kulaal. But,as is argued in the present paper, more recent data show that, in some cases, presentdaysuffi xes may result from the association of a former suffi x with an elementsimilar to one of the Kulaal determiners. In such cases the former determiner hassimply lost its independence and been historically stacked onto the noun form. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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