82 research outputs found
Prosodic aspects of Baule: with special reference to German of Baule speakers
No full textAhoua F. Prosodic aspects of Baule: with special reference to German of Baule speakers. Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen ; 6. Köln: Köppe; 1996
Ega
No full textConnell B, Ahoua F, Gibbon D. Ega. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 2002;32(1):99-104.
Ega is an endangered language spoken in the south-central region of Côte d'Ivoire, in Divo Department. The precise number of speakers is not known at present; the 14th
Ethnologue
(Grimes 2000) reports 291 to 3,000, and notes that ‘the ethnic group is growing, but they are shifting to the Dida language because of intermarriage and other influences’. Our own preliminary and impressionistic work suggests the number of Ega speakers to be closer to the upper end of this range, perhaps around 2,000, but we note that Ega now serves a decreasing number of sociolinguistic functions, to the extent that in at least some villages Dida has replaced Ega as the primary language of daily use. It is also clear that the degree of intergenerational transmission is low in many, if not all, Ega villages.
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Les classes nominales en kadile, parler senoufo de Côte d’Ivoire
Full text linkRésumé : Cet article présente les classes nominales en kadile. C’est un parler senoufo qui ne dérobe pas à la règle des classes nominales dans les langues Gur. En ce qui concerne ce parler, cinq (05) classes nominales dénombrables et deux classes non dénombrables ont été dénombrées. Ces classes sont pour la plupart des paires (singuliers pluriels) et comportent souvent plusieurs séries de classe. Il présente également 4 (quatre) classes de défini comptant chacune 2 (deux) morphèmes dont un singulier et un pluriel et 5 (cinq) classes de pronom anaphorique comprenant également chacune 2 (deux) morphèmes (singulier ; pluriel). Ce qui a permis de déduire 5 (cinq) genres nominaux.
Mots-clés: classes nominales; règles ; nombre ; singulier ; plurie
The Old Tree Stories
No full textAdvertised on the back cover as containing delightful twists of Æsop's Tales. The closest Aesopic fables I can remember are about the picky heron (but there the victims get smaller and do no pleading) and about a variety of victims who promise in vain that they will come back when they are bigger. The fox here releases a mouse, a rat, and a hare before he finally, foolishly bites into a bear's nose. Here Firmin has fun away from the action with cowboy ants that end up riding beetles like horses. Delightful contemporary art.First edition?Peter Firmi
Ega
No full textConnell B, Ahoua F, Gibbon D. Ega. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 2002;32(1):99-104.Ega is an endangered language spoken in the south-central region of Côte d'Ivoire, in Divo Department. The precise number of speakers is not known at present; the 14thEthnologue(Grimes 2000) reports 291 to 3,000, and notes that ‘the ethnic group is growing, but they are shifting to the Dida language because of intermarriage and other influences’. Our own preliminary and impressionistic work suggests the number of Ega speakers to be closer to the upper end of this range, perhaps around 2,000, but we note that Ega now serves a decreasing number of sociolinguistic functions, to the extent that in at least some villages Dida has replaced Ega as the primary language of daily use. It is also clear that the degree of intergenerational transmission is low in many, if not all, Ega villages
Étude contrastive des effets de la proéminence prosodique en kode
No full textCe travail fournit une étude détaillée du système prosodique du kode et apporte une contribution importante à la compréhension des mécanismes qui gèrent les interactions entre ton et proéminence prosodique dans le contexte discursif. Cette thèse explore donc l'étude de la proéminence prosodique du kode ; une langue à ton, plus particulièrement la proéminence en tant que contraste au niveau lexical et au niveau du discours, c'est-à-dire la structure de l'information. Cette thèse offre à cet effet une analyse hiérarchique de différents types de proéminence prosodique dans la langue kode. L'étude inclut une analyse phonologique et syntaxique/discursive de données collectées. Ce travail intègre des aspects méthodologiques et des notions théoriques liés à un large éventail de domaines en linguistique tels que la phonétique expérimentale, la phonologie, la syntaxe et la pragmatique
The Autosegmental Representation of Tones in Akan: more Evidence for the Tone Mapping Rule with Reference to Baule
No full textResuming topics and foci: Anyi, Baule and microvariation in Kwa languages
No full textAbstract Left peripheral topics and foci often differ with respect to resumption: in languages such as Italian, Tzotzil Maya, and Warlpiri, while fronted topics may be co-indexed with a pronominal form in the corresponding argument position, fronted foci correspond to a gap. However, this contrast does not universally apply. In languages such as Anyi and Baule, two Kwa languages of Côte d’Ivoire, subjects and animate objects must be resumed by a pronoun whenever they appear in the left periphery – independent of information structure. The question is whether this instance of cross-linguistic variation arises through differences in the syntax of left peripheral positions in various languages or in the conditions of resumption. The present study examines data from Kwa languages and concludes that the difference lies in the conditions of resumption, which are orthogonal to the syntactic differences between topics and foci. Resumptives have a dual nature in these languages, serving as anaphoric constants (true resumptives) in topicalization and as bound variables (apparent resumptives) in focus constructions. A survey of the relevant facts in further Kwa languages reveals that resumption is determined by factors that are independent from information structure and relate to the recoverability of empty argument positions.DAA
Discrete level narrative, terraced music : insights from underdocumented Ivorian languages
No full textGibbon D, Ahoua F, Kipré Blé F, Griffiths S. Discrete level narrative, terraced music : insights from underdocumented Ivorian languages. In: Austin PK, Bond O, Charette M, Nathan D, Sells P, eds. Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2. London: SOAS; 2009
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