Le numéro 1 du volume 16 de Corela touche des champs des sciences du langage qui vont de la gramm... more Le numéro 1 du volume 16 de Corela touche des champs des sciences du langage qui vont de la grammaire à l’analyse de discours, en passant par la syntaxe et le changement phonétique. C’est donc un numéro très ouvert que nous vous proposons. Il commence par deux articles consacrés à la syntaxe : une analyse longitudinale de l’émergence et de l’évolution des locutions conjonctives sur plus d’un millénaire de langue française, à partir du cas de lorsque(Leïla Ben Hamad), et une étude effectuée dans le cadre minimaliste de la syntaxe générative et qui aborde les yes/noquestions et les wh-questions dans la langue Ǹjò̩-kóo (Benue-Congo, parlée dans l’état de Ondo au Nigeria) (Simeon Olaogun).La grammaire est le thème des deux articles qui suivent. L’un s’intéresse au rapport que la grammaire entretient avec la langue, la métalangue et la linguistique, en prenant le cas de l’enseignement de l’anglais langue seconde (Clotilde Castagné-Véziès). L’autre est lié à l’analyse des marques de TAM T...
The claim in some quarters is that polar question marking particles cross-linguistically occur ei... more The claim in some quarters is that polar question marking particles cross-linguistically occur either clause-finally or clause-initially. This paper, adopting the minimalist framework of generative syntax, investigates polar questions in - observes that which appears to mark such questions in the language is immediately preceded by the subject DP. The paper argues that a clause final hightone that shows up in such questions in the language cannot be the marker of polar question because the same item occurs in focus constructions. The paper therefore proposes that syntax of polar questions in -Kóo involves two probes: Inter (interrogative head) and Emph (emphatic head), with each capable of triggering displacement operation. The first, , has an Inter-EPP feature which is valued and deleted by moving the matching goal to its specifier position; while the second, the clause final high-tone, has an EPP feature that provokes pied-piping of TP to spec-EmphP. Given the fact that any clause...
There have been three main contentious issues about the nine speech forms, christened Akokoid or ... more There have been three main contentious issues about the nine speech forms, christened Akokoid or north-west Akokoid in the North-western part of Akoko. These issues are: (1) the appropriate name for the speech forms (2) whether or not they are dialects of Yoruba or a distinct language, and (3) the internal relatedness of the speech forms. In an attempt to resolve these controversies, some existing scholarly works have come up with some proposals and suggestions. However, their proposed suggestions and solutions have not been able to sufficiently resolve the contentious issues. This being the case, this present study, leaning on history of migration, mutual intelligibility, syntactic evidence and neutrality hypothesis, advances fresh evidence and plausible arguments that would hopefully be generally acceptable and permanently resolve these lingering argumentations. Data for this study were elicited with syntactic checklist from purposefully selected native speakers, and were subjecte...
This study examines the decline in use of some lexical items in Yoruba. 15 competent Yoruba speak... more This study examines the decline in use of some lexical items in Yoruba. 15 competent Yoruba speakers distributed across six communities were tested; 94 words were presented to five speakers in three rural communities, while 62 of the words were presented to 10 speakers distributed across three urban communities. The results showed that the use of the test words had reduced. The test words constituted only 31.8 % of the entire test; in the remaining 68.2 %, where they were not used, participants used alternatives such as descriptive phrases, synonyms, slang terms and the use of generic terms among others. Also, out of the 94 words used in the test, 21 (22.3 %) were not used at all by the respondents and were classified as obsolete, while 41 other words (43.6 %) had a frequency of 40 % or less and were classified as obsolescent. It is noteworthy that loanwords were used in only 3.9 % of the entire test. It is concluded that the Yoruba lexicon is currently undergoing change, but this c...
Le numéro 1 du volume 16 de Corela touche des champs des sciences du langage qui vont de la gramm... more Le numéro 1 du volume 16 de Corela touche des champs des sciences du langage qui vont de la grammaire à l’analyse de discours, en passant par la syntaxe et le changement phonétique. C’est donc un numéro très ouvert que nous vous proposons. Il commence par deux articles consacrés à la syntaxe : une analyse longitudinale de l’émergence et de l’évolution des locutions conjonctives sur plus d’un millénaire de langue française, à partir du cas de lorsque(Leïla Ben Hamad), et une étude effectuée dans le cadre minimaliste de la syntaxe générative et qui aborde les yes/noquestions et les wh-questions dans la langue Ǹjò̩-kóo (Benue-Congo, parlée dans l’état de Ondo au Nigeria) (Simeon Olaogun).La grammaire est le thème des deux articles qui suivent. L’un s’intéresse au rapport que la grammaire entretient avec la langue, la métalangue et la linguistique, en prenant le cas de l’enseignement de l’anglais langue seconde (Clotilde Castagné-Véziès). L’autre est lié à l’analyse des marques de TAM T...
The claim in some quarters is that polar question marking particles cross-linguistically occur ei... more The claim in some quarters is that polar question marking particles cross-linguistically occur either clause-finally or clause-initially. This paper, adopting the minimalist framework of generative syntax, investigates polar questions in - observes that which appears to mark such questions in the language is immediately preceded by the subject DP. The paper argues that a clause final hightone that shows up in such questions in the language cannot be the marker of polar question because the same item occurs in focus constructions. The paper therefore proposes that syntax of polar questions in -Kóo involves two probes: Inter (interrogative head) and Emph (emphatic head), with each capable of triggering displacement operation. The first, , has an Inter-EPP feature which is valued and deleted by moving the matching goal to its specifier position; while the second, the clause final high-tone, has an EPP feature that provokes pied-piping of TP to spec-EmphP. Given the fact that any clause...
There have been three main contentious issues about the nine speech forms, christened Akokoid or ... more There have been three main contentious issues about the nine speech forms, christened Akokoid or north-west Akokoid in the North-western part of Akoko. These issues are: (1) the appropriate name for the speech forms (2) whether or not they are dialects of Yoruba or a distinct language, and (3) the internal relatedness of the speech forms. In an attempt to resolve these controversies, some existing scholarly works have come up with some proposals and suggestions. However, their proposed suggestions and solutions have not been able to sufficiently resolve the contentious issues. This being the case, this present study, leaning on history of migration, mutual intelligibility, syntactic evidence and neutrality hypothesis, advances fresh evidence and plausible arguments that would hopefully be generally acceptable and permanently resolve these lingering argumentations. Data for this study were elicited with syntactic checklist from purposefully selected native speakers, and were subjecte...
This study examines the decline in use of some lexical items in Yoruba. 15 competent Yoruba speak... more This study examines the decline in use of some lexical items in Yoruba. 15 competent Yoruba speakers distributed across six communities were tested; 94 words were presented to five speakers in three rural communities, while 62 of the words were presented to 10 speakers distributed across three urban communities. The results showed that the use of the test words had reduced. The test words constituted only 31.8 % of the entire test; in the remaining 68.2 %, where they were not used, participants used alternatives such as descriptive phrases, synonyms, slang terms and the use of generic terms among others. Also, out of the 94 words used in the test, 21 (22.3 %) were not used at all by the respondents and were classified as obsolete, while 41 other words (43.6 %) had a frequency of 40 % or less and were classified as obsolescent. It is noteworthy that loanwords were used in only 3.9 % of the entire test. It is concluded that the Yoruba lexicon is currently undergoing change, but this c...
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