Kwa Languages
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Cette étude porte sur les aspects morphosyntaxiques et sémantiques des proverbes bron, principalement le bron de Côte d’Ivoire. Elle a pour particularité de lever le voile sur les mécanismes de construction et d’interprétation de ces... more
Linguistique et Langues Africaines (LLA) [African Languages and Linguistics] is an international journal for African linguistics, whose main goal is to contribute to a better knowledge of languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa, be they... more
Cette étude se propose de réexaminer la classification des verbes bron. Pour ce faire, elle part du constat que les critères formels ne suffisent pas à les typifier ; en témoigne la proposition de Timyan (1981) qui ne permet pas de rendre... more
This paper presents a description of the vowel harmony system of Akposso (Uwi), a Kwa language of Ghana and Togo, one of only a handful of Kwa languages with a complete ten vowel system with ATR harmony. However, the tenth vowel, //,... more
This article examines the forms and functions of conditional clauses in Tuwuli, a Kwa language spoken in South-Eastern Ghana. It reveals how the traditional categories of conditionals (e.g. hypothetical, counterfactual, concessive) do not... more
На материале языка акебу рассматриваются конструкции с номинализацией, аргу менты при которой имеют нулевое или прономинализованное выражение. Приме чательная особенность данных конструкций состоит в поведении прямого объекта, который... more
Wilson (2003, 2006) argues that unbounded spreading is, by nature, myopic. Subsequent work has shown that bounded harmonies like metaphony may exhibit non-myopic properties (Walker 2010). In this paper we present data from Tutrugbu,... more
The following paper contributes to the study of procedural discourse through the examination of the elements distinguishing mainline from supportive material in Akposso procedural texts and by comparing these elements to those found in... more
"Вопросы языкознания", 4, 2010