This paper presents an overview of the morphosyntax of comparative, equative and similative const... more This paper presents an overview of the morphosyntax of comparative, equative and similative constructions in Beja, a Cushitic language spoken in Sudan. It also discusses their relevance for current typological models and the extent to which they are at variance with the existing literature (Stassen 1985; Haspelmath & Buchholz 1998; Henkelmann 2006). The paper also proposes hypotheses regarding the origin of Beja comparative and similative morphemes , an issue which is problematic. A section is dedicated to the study of the extensions of the morphemes concerned to other functional domains, such as functive, pretense clauses, similes and accord clauses, causal and adverbial clauses, within the background of Creissels's (2014) approach to the polysemy and multifunctionality of these markers. Comparisons with other Cushitic languages are also provided when necessary.
... R1=n. R1=n. R1=n. (raHna). raHna. R1=n. inac 1 pl. n-. l-. l-. n-. n-. ... Phonologie et Morp... more ... R1=n. R1=n. R1=n. (raHna). raHna. R1=n. inac 1 pl. n-. l-. l-. n-. n-. ... Phonologie et Morphologie, Thèse Nouveau Régime, Université Paris III. Kamil, MurAd, 1968, al-LahaAt al-arabiyya al-HadIa fI al-Yaman, Le Caire. Landberg, Carlo de, 1895-1898, Arabica, vol. III, IV, V, Leide, ...
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of L Association Internationale Pour La Dialectologie Arabe Held at Trinity Hall in the University of Cambridge 10 14 September 1995, Sep 12, 1996
ABSTRACT In spite of a very long common cultural and linguistic history, the review of the criter... more ABSTRACT In spite of a very long common cultural and linguistic history, the review of the criterion usually used to identify an Ethiopian linguistic area has shown that the Red Sea zone cannot be considered as a linguistic area, in the strict sense of the term. It cannot be denied that deep influences and upheavals took place, but in an unbalanced way. It seems that the Red Sea has been and still is a real borderline for linguistic change in the Arabian Peninsula but not in Africa: major changes, such as language shift, or more minor ones are all due to linguistic contact between the two coasts of the Red Sea; but they occurred in Africa, not in Arabia. From a linguistic viewpoint, Africa received much from Arabia, but the reverse is not true. Thus the Red Sea zone is more accurately defined as a case of asymmetric dominance relations between languages with large-scale shifts, to use the terms of Thomason and Kaufman (1988: 95). But such a conclusion is only partial because it does not account for what happened and is still happening on the west coast. As a matter of fact it seems that, on the African side, influences between Cushitic and Semitic have been and probably still are bidirectional, and that all linguistic levels are affected.
Les contes bedjas du Soudan distinguent quatre espaces, terrestre, céleste, souterrain et maritim... more Les contes bedjas du Soudan distinguent quatre espaces, terrestre, céleste, souterrain et maritime, qui sont très peu spécifiés (absence de toponymes ou repères directionnels, par exemple), mais seulement symbolisés par quelques éléments types de la société et de son environnement: huttes, puits, marchés, pâturages, arbres, tanières, grottes et oueds. Même les trajectoires des nombreux déplacements et voyages ne sont pas matérialisés dans des chemins ou sentiers. Après une étude des moments et des raisons des déplacements vers les espaces non domestiques, cet article s'attache plus particulièrement à l'analyse de l'espace maritime. Seule à ne posséder aucune caractéristique d'un territoire humain, la mer symbolise en effet par excellence le lieu de tous les dangers, dans une communauté qui lui tourne le dos alors qu'elle vit sur ses bordures.x
Ce chapitre présente une synthèse des principales caractéristiques linguistiques du bedja (couchi... more Ce chapitre présente une synthèse des principales caractéristiques linguistiques du bedja (couchitique nord): contexte historique et culturel, phonétique, phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique, lexique
Ce chapitre présente un état de l'art des connaissances sur les langues du phylum afroasiatiq... more Ce chapitre présente un état de l'art des connaissances sur les langues du phylum afroasiatique: histoire, classification, écritures, situations sociolinguistiques des différentes branches
This collection of articles takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David Wilkins in 1... more This collection of articles takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David Wilkins in 1996. In the majority of contact-related studies, morphology is at best a marginal topic. According to the extant borrowing hierarchies, bound morphology is copied only rarely, if at all, because morphological copies presuppose long-term intensive contact with prior massive borrowing of content words and function words. On the other hand, especially in studies of morphological change, contact is often identified as the decisive factor which triggers the disintegration of morphological systems. However, it remains to be seen whether these two standard treatments of morphology in contact situations exhaust the phenomenology of Contact Morphology. The 14 papers of the present volume shed new light on the behavior of morphology under the conditions of language contact. Fresh empirical data from 40 languages world-wide are presented and new theory-based concepts are discussed. Morphologies in ...
This paper presents an overview of the morphosyntax of comparative, equative and similative const... more This paper presents an overview of the morphosyntax of comparative, equative and similative constructions in Beja, a Cushitic language spoken in Sudan. It also discusses their relevance for current typological models and the extent to which they are at variance with the existing literature (Stassen 1985; Haspelmath & Buchholz 1998; Henkelmann 2006). The paper also proposes hypotheses regarding the origin of Beja comparative and similative morphemes , an issue which is problematic. A section is dedicated to the study of the extensions of the morphemes concerned to other functional domains, such as functive, pretense clauses, similes and accord clauses, causal and adverbial clauses, within the background of Creissels's (2014) approach to the polysemy and multifunctionality of these markers. Comparisons with other Cushitic languages are also provided when necessary.
... R1=n. R1=n. R1=n. (raHna). raHna. R1=n. inac 1 pl. n-. l-. l-. n-. n-. ... Phonologie et Morp... more ... R1=n. R1=n. R1=n. (raHna). raHna. R1=n. inac 1 pl. n-. l-. l-. n-. n-. ... Phonologie et Morphologie, Thèse Nouveau Régime, Université Paris III. Kamil, MurAd, 1968, al-LahaAt al-arabiyya al-HadIa fI al-Yaman, Le Caire. Landberg, Carlo de, 1895-1898, Arabica, vol. III, IV, V, Leide, ...
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of L Association Internationale Pour La Dialectologie Arabe Held at Trinity Hall in the University of Cambridge 10 14 September 1995, Sep 12, 1996
ABSTRACT In spite of a very long common cultural and linguistic history, the review of the criter... more ABSTRACT In spite of a very long common cultural and linguistic history, the review of the criterion usually used to identify an Ethiopian linguistic area has shown that the Red Sea zone cannot be considered as a linguistic area, in the strict sense of the term. It cannot be denied that deep influences and upheavals took place, but in an unbalanced way. It seems that the Red Sea has been and still is a real borderline for linguistic change in the Arabian Peninsula but not in Africa: major changes, such as language shift, or more minor ones are all due to linguistic contact between the two coasts of the Red Sea; but they occurred in Africa, not in Arabia. From a linguistic viewpoint, Africa received much from Arabia, but the reverse is not true. Thus the Red Sea zone is more accurately defined as a case of asymmetric dominance relations between languages with large-scale shifts, to use the terms of Thomason and Kaufman (1988: 95). But such a conclusion is only partial because it does not account for what happened and is still happening on the west coast. As a matter of fact it seems that, on the African side, influences between Cushitic and Semitic have been and probably still are bidirectional, and that all linguistic levels are affected.
Les contes bedjas du Soudan distinguent quatre espaces, terrestre, céleste, souterrain et maritim... more Les contes bedjas du Soudan distinguent quatre espaces, terrestre, céleste, souterrain et maritime, qui sont très peu spécifiés (absence de toponymes ou repères directionnels, par exemple), mais seulement symbolisés par quelques éléments types de la société et de son environnement: huttes, puits, marchés, pâturages, arbres, tanières, grottes et oueds. Même les trajectoires des nombreux déplacements et voyages ne sont pas matérialisés dans des chemins ou sentiers. Après une étude des moments et des raisons des déplacements vers les espaces non domestiques, cet article s'attache plus particulièrement à l'analyse de l'espace maritime. Seule à ne posséder aucune caractéristique d'un territoire humain, la mer symbolise en effet par excellence le lieu de tous les dangers, dans une communauté qui lui tourne le dos alors qu'elle vit sur ses bordures.x
Ce chapitre présente une synthèse des principales caractéristiques linguistiques du bedja (couchi... more Ce chapitre présente une synthèse des principales caractéristiques linguistiques du bedja (couchitique nord): contexte historique et culturel, phonétique, phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique, lexique
Ce chapitre présente un état de l'art des connaissances sur les langues du phylum afroasiatiq... more Ce chapitre présente un état de l'art des connaissances sur les langues du phylum afroasiatique: histoire, classification, écritures, situations sociolinguistiques des différentes branches
This collection of articles takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David Wilkins in 1... more This collection of articles takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David Wilkins in 1996. In the majority of contact-related studies, morphology is at best a marginal topic. According to the extant borrowing hierarchies, bound morphology is copied only rarely, if at all, because morphological copies presuppose long-term intensive contact with prior massive borrowing of content words and function words. On the other hand, especially in studies of morphological change, contact is often identified as the decisive factor which triggers the disintegration of morphological systems. However, it remains to be seen whether these two standard treatments of morphology in contact situations exhaust the phenomenology of Contact Morphology. The 14 papers of the present volume shed new light on the behavior of morphology under the conditions of language contact. Fresh empirical data from 40 languages world-wide are presented and new theory-based concepts are discussed. Morphologies in ...
This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered togeth... more This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of polysemy, heterosemy, or semantic change at the lexical level. The first part presents a comprehensive state of the art of a domain typologists have long been reluctant to deal with. Part two focuses on theoretical and methodological approaches: cognition, construction grammar, graph theory, semantic maps, and data bases. These studies deal with universals and variation across languages, illustrated with numerous examples from different semantic domains and different languages. Part three is dedicated to detailed empirical studies of a large sample of languages in a limited set of semantic fields. It reveals possible universals of semantic association, as well as areal and cultural tendencies.
This special issue of Linguistics presents recent developments in lexical typology by 10 leading ... more This special issue of Linguistics presents recent developments in lexical typology by 10 leading specialists.
These procedeings present a selection of papers from the the 5th conference on Cushitic and Omoti... more These procedeings present a selection of papers from the the 5th conference on Cushitic and Omotic languages, organized in three different parts: Historical and comparative approaches; Typological studies; Descriptive and synchronic studies. It gathers 14 articles ranging from phonetics and tonology to morphology and syntax. Six papers are devoted to the reconstruction of these two branches of the Afroasiatic phylum and contact phenomena.
This books is the result of a joint Franco-Brasilian project which studies the impact of African ... more This books is the result of a joint Franco-Brasilian project which studies the impact of African languages on the varieties of Portuguese spoken in Brazil. It gathers articles on contact-induced phenomena in the phonetic, morphological, syntactic and semantic domains of Brasilian Portuguese
While comparative constructions have been extensively studied in the past decades, the expression... more While comparative constructions have been extensively studied in the past decades, the expression of equality and similarity has so far attracted little attention in the typological literature. The fifteen contributions assembled in this volume study similative and equative constructions in typologically and genetically distant languages, albeit with a focus on Africa, and from a range of perspectives. Purely synchronically oriented case studies are supplemented by contributions that also shed light on the diachronic development of similative and equative constructions in language contact situations. Sources of similative morphemes and lexically expressed concepts of likeness are examined, and little-known multifunctionality patterns and grammaticalisation targets of similative morphemes – such as purpose clause markers, modality morphemes and markers of glottonyms – are discussed. Based on a sample of 119 languages worldwide, a new typology of equative constructions is proposed. The book should be of interest to typologists, semanticists, specialists of grammaticalization, historical linguistics and syntax.
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