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The use of manner demonstratives in discourse: A contrastive study of Wan (Mande) and Kambaata (Cushitic)
No full textAccepted for publication in: Næss, Åshild, Anna Margetts & Yvonne Treis (eds.) (forthcoming). Demonstratives in Discourse. Berlin: Language Science Press.This chapter compares manner demonstratives in two unrelated African languages, Kambaata (Cushitic, Ethiopia) and Wan (Mande, Côte d'Ivoire). Both languages have specialized manner demonstratives yet differ strikingly in their typological profile and in the way the manner demonstratives behave syntactically. Through systematic comparison of data from both languages, similarities, which are likely due to common semantic mechanisms of meaning extension, and differences, which are likely due to structural differences between the languages, are identified. It is argued that, despite the shared core meanings, manner demonstratives belong to different syntactic classes in Kambaata and in Wan. The difference in syntactic category helps account for the striking dissimilarities in the range of attested extended uses
Kambaata-Xambaaro Zone and its woredas
No full textThis map can be seen in : Yvonne Treis. Comparison in Kambaata: Superiority, Equality and Similarity. Linguistic Discovery, 2018, On the expression of comparison: Contributions to the typology of comparative constructions from lesser-known languages (guest editors: Yvonne Treis & Katarzyna I. Wojtylak), 16 (1), pp.64-99. ⟨hal-01350812v3
Kambaata-Xambaaro Zone and its woredas
No full textThis map can be seen in : Yvonne Treis. Comparison in Kambaata: Superiority, Equality and Similarity. Linguistic Discovery, 2018, On the expression of comparison: Contributions to the typology of comparative constructions from lesser-known languages (guest editors: Yvonne Treis & Katarzyna I. Wojtylak), 16 (1), pp.64-99. ⟨hal-01350812v3
Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept
Get PDFThis paper introduces the special issue of Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, entitled “Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept”, edited by Aimée Lahaussois, Julie Marsault and Yvonne Treis. The contributions, which are the result of work by a research group on ideophones and interjections, funded by the Labex EFL in Paris, are mainly descriptive papers with a typological perspective, informed by the more than 20 years of ideophone research following the landmark publication edited by Voeltz & Kilian-Hatz in 2001. After introducing the field and briefly presenting each contribution, we discuss issues in ideophone research that the articles gathered here contribute to, namely whether or not ideophones make up a clear-cut word class in different languages, and how different contributors interpret their relationship with onomatopoeia and interjections. We also present an overview of the primary syntactic uses of ideophones in the different languages and highlight the morphological processes attested for ideophonization and deideophonization, which are still under-investigated
SEMINAR - Linguistic Project in Kambatta
No full textSEMINAR/SÉMINAIRE No sweet without sweat: A linguistic documentation of beekeeping in Kambaata Friday 27th October, 2PM @ CFEE – French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Berhanu Abebe Library By Yvonne Treis (CNRS-LLACAN, France), Yoseph Yonas Zecharias (University of Gondar) and Abel Yonas Zekarias (Bielefeld University, Germany). Yvonne Treis is a research fellow and deputy director of the LLACAN laboratory (Language, Languages and Cultures of Africa), UMR 8135. She has been working in Ethiopi..
Manner, quality, degree and quantity demonstratives in Kambaata
No full textInternational audienceThis presentation on Kambaata (Cushitic) follows the questionnaire on manner, quality, degree and quantity demonstratives in Ethiopian languages developped by Ronny Meyer and Yvonne Treis
The Attenuative Derivation in Kambaata
No full textPaper presented in the Workshop "Attenuated qualities in a cross-linguistic perspective", organised by Guillaume Segerer and Yvonne Treis, 30 August 2018International audienc
The Attenuative Derivation in Kambaata
No full textPaper presented in the Workshop "Attenuated qualities in a cross-linguistic perspective", organised by Guillaume Segerer and Yvonne Treis, 30 August 2018International audienc
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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