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Faits De Langues, 2016

I am thankful to Coleman Donaldson who has checked my English. 2 73 languages, according to the c... more I am thankful to Coleman Donaldson who has checked my English. 2 73 languages, according to the current edition of the Ethnologue, . ethnologue.com/subgroups/niger-congo. However, this figure should be modified in the view of some recent findings. On the other hand, certain varieties mentioned in the Ethnologue as separate languages should in fact be regarded as dialects of some other languages. *ba-di *Pìi-da(ŋ) cow *nak *nìŋka (W) three *Tati/Tatu (*sàgba, *yàaka) human *nu/ni *núu (SW) four *nai /naγi *náanì (W) black bi(D)/bi(N) *Pi ̰ ̀ (W) tongue *dem/lem *lɛ̰ ɓṼ chicken *čoke *tɔqɛ tree *te/ti *yíti grandparent, child *mama *màmá (W) dog *buha *gbÉlàŋ (?) tooth *niŋ *ɲíŋ to eat *Di *ɗE (spurious) to cough *tu (*tiso) mother *na/ni *ɗã sand *cengi * k ɛ̰ gṼ white *pu(D) *púlú to bite *dum/lun *dóɓũ/ *ɗOŋ 'eat' skin *kwoto *kpoLo to pound *to *tùgu (Vai-Mokole)

Graphemics in the 21st Century

ist an und für sich die intelligentere." Überlegungen zur Bewertung von Schriftsyste men ["Alphab... more ist an und für sich die intelligentere." Überlegungen zur Bewertung von Schriftsyste men ["Alphabetic writing is in and for itself the more intelligent Form". Reflections on the evaluation of writing systems] . . . .

Mandenkan, 2024

Le maninka de Guinée a deux constructions exprimant la prédication qualitative : l’une est verbal... more Le maninka de Guinée a deux constructions exprimant la prédication qualitative : l’une est verbale, avec les marqueurs prédicatifs spécialisés (une construction analogue existe dans la plupart des langues du groupe mandingue), l’autre est la construction avec des adjectifs prédicatifs (qui n’est pas attestée dans les autres langues du groupe). Un sous-type de la construction verbale est celle qualitative augmentative où le verbe qualitatif apparaît avec le suffixe -bá. Cette construction manifeste quelques indices de déverbalisation.
L’inventaire des verbes qualitatifs en maninka de Guinée est réduit, ils sont deux fois moins nombreux qu’en bambara. On observe une distribution complémentaire entre les verbes qualitatifs et les adjectifs prédicatifs. Les notions appartenant aux zones sémantiques « Dimension », « Caractéristiques physiques », « Âge », « Vitesse » sont exprimées surtout par les verbes qualitatifs, celles des zones « Couleurs » et « Qualités humaines » le sont par les adjectifs prédicatifs. La zone « Évaluation » est partagée par les deux classes lexicales.

Mandenkan, 2023

There are three constructions in Guinean Maninka with basic meanings belonging to the future-pros... more There are three constructions in Guinean Maninka with basic meanings belonging to the future-prospective area: the First Future, the Second Future, and the Prospective. This paper, based on elicitation and natural text data, analyzes the semantics and distribution of these constructions. Specifically, it demonstrates the following: the First Future construction (marked by dí) has a broad range of future meanings and can be regarded as the default future construction, it also has a habitual meaning; the less frequent Second Future (marked by dínà) expresses the distant future; the Prospective construction (marked by the verbal suffix ‑tɔ), apart from prospective meaning, can also have future-tense or modal semantics. Additionally, it establishes that the First Future and Prospective constructions are sensitive to the presence of an argument focus in the clause. Finally, it advances hypotheses on the etymology and the evolution paths of each construction and its marker: the Prospective construction may originate from the simultaneity converb (marked by suffix ‑tɔ); the First Future marker, from the qualitative verb dí ‘be pleasant; be easy’; the Second Future marker results from combination of the First Future marker with the verb nà ‘to come’.

Focalization in Bambara, in comparison with Kakabe, 2023

0.2. General information on Bambara and Kakabe Bambara (< Manding < Western Mande < Mande < Niger... more 0.2. General information on Bambara and Kakabe Bambara (< Manding < Western Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo) is the biggest language of Mali (West Africa). It is spoken by more than 4 million L1 speakers and at least 13 million L2 speakers, mainly in Mali, but also in the diaspora. Bambara has some written literature and periodicals, it is widely used in literacy programs and, to some extent, in primary and secondary education. Bambara is a relatively well-described language: there is a reference grammar, a number of university courses and textbooks, big dictionaries, and hundreds of research articles have been published. Bambara is a tonal language with two basic tones, low and high. 1 The basic word order is S AUX (O) V X, where S is a subject, V is a verb, AUX is an auxiliary word expressing grammatical semantics of tense, aspect, mode and polarity (in the Mandeist tradition, AUX are named "predicative markers"), O is a direct object (whose absence makes the verb intransitive), and X is an oblique (indirect object or adjunct), most often represented by a postpositional phrase. The word order in NP is N 2-N 1 (N 1 is the head noun, N 2 is the dependent noun), N-Adj (the adjectival modifier follows the head noun). Kakabe (< Mokole < Western Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo) is a minor Mande language spoken in the Republic of Guinea by approximately 50,000 speakers. It is subject to dialectal variation with Northern Kakabe, Western Kakabe and Central Kakabe as its main dialectal zones. Phenomena related to the expression of focus, which is the main object of this study, are mostly the same across these dialectal zones. The basic grammar of Kakabe is similar to that of Manding, in particular, to Bambara. 1 The Bambara tonal system has been the subject of numerous studies. For a concise presentation, see (Vydrin 2016a). In the present paper, the tonal notation is phonological, following the principles formulated for the Bambara Reference Corpus. In short: tone markers are indicated only on the initial syllable of the tonal domain. The absence of tonal marks on a vowel means that the syllable belongs to the same tonal domain as the preceding one. Otherwise, all Bambara examples are transcribed according to the official Bambara orthography of Mali.

Язык как он есть: Сборник статей к 60-летию Андрея Александровича Кибрика, 2023

Mandenkan, 68, 2022

un autre' dɔ́wɛrɛ *dɔ́ wɛŕɛ 'depuis' kàbíni *kàbí ní 'très, beaucoup' kósɛbɛ, kósɛbɛ *kó sɛbɛ 'bi... more un autre' dɔ́wɛrɛ *dɔ́ wɛŕɛ 'depuis' kàbíni *kàbí ní 'très, beaucoup' kósɛbɛ, kósɛbɛ *kó sɛbɛ 'bien, comme il faut' kóɲùman *kó ɲùman 'de nouveau' kókura *kó kúra 'quand, lorsque' mînkɛ, mínkɛńi *mîn kɛ, *mín kɛńi 'là-bas' yènnínnɔ, yènnɔ̀ *yen nin nɔ ou *yènní nɔ, *yen nɔ Tableau 2. Formes liées recommandées Sens Recommandé Déconseillé 'à l'oubli de' à ɲìnɛ` mà *a ɲinɛma 'derrière le fleuve, sur l'autre rive de fleuve' bá` kɔ́ *bakɔ 'sous la main' bólo kɔŕɔ *bolokɔrɔ 'faire une intrusion; mettre fin, annuler' dàn kári 11 *dankari 'par terre' dùgu` mà *duguma 'jusqu'ici' háli bì *halibi 'pardonner' hàkɛ tó *hakɛto 'comme' í n'à fɔ́ *inafɔ, *i na a fɔ 'comme, comme si' í kó *iko 's'ingérer' k'í sèn` dòn *k'i sendon 'se suicider' k'í yɛrɛ̂ fàga *k'i yɛrɛfaga 'au hasard' kùn fɛ̀ *kunfɛ 'grâce à' nùn mà *nunma, *numa 'au cours de' sèn fɛ̀ *senfɛ 'en marche, en cours, sur pied' sèn kàn *senkan Tableau 3. Formes séparées recommandées

Genitival constructions in Eastern Dan, 2022

In Eastern Dan (< Southern Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo), the common Mande strategies of marking g... more In Eastern Dan (< Southern Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo), the common Mande strategies of marking genitival relations are available, namely head-marking by means of tone, and dependent-marking (by a specialized postposition) in the alienable possession construction. However, against this common background, some important modifications have evolved. The opposition between the head-marked and the head-unmarked constructions, although retained, has become semantically blurred: in the proto-language, the head-marked genitival construction had the semantics of "modification-by-noun", while in the Eastern Dan, this meaning has undergone erosion. In the dependent-marked constructions, a case-like opposition has emerged in the alienable possession constructions: different possessive markers (postpositions) are used depending on whether the head noun of an NP containing the possessive construction stands in the locative case or not. Other postpositions can also serve as markers of genitival relations. In addition, morphological case can sometimes serve to mark genitival relations.

Language in Afric, 2022

Kakabe, an understudied language in Guinea (Mokole < Western Mande < < Mande < Niger-Congo), is s... more Kakabe, an understudied language in Guinea (Mokole < Western Mande < < Mande < Niger-Congo), is spoken by several ethnic groups, mainly of inferior social status, most of which are bilingual in Pular. There are four dialects of Kakabe: Northern (the Kankalabe area), Central (villages to the northwest , east and southeast of Timbo), Kuru-Maninka and Wure-Kaba Maninka. The Northern and Central dialects are close to each other linguistically, their speakers refer to themselves as "Kakabe", and these dialects can be regarded as comprising "nuclear Kakabe"; meanwhile, the speakers of Kuru-Maninka and Wure-Kaba Maninka reject being identified as "Kakabe", and their varieties have far fewer loans from Pular. A lexicostatistical study based on the Swadesh 100-item wordlist has been carried out. It confirmed the preliminary hypothesis of a particular affinity between the "core dialects" and showed that the other two dialects are further removed from them, but not as distant as the Mogofin (Mixifore) language spoken to the south of Boke (extreme NW part of the Republic of Guinea). Therefore, from a linguistic viewpoint, the Wure-Kaba Maninka and Kuru-Maninka varieties can be regarded Kakabe dialects despite the fact that their speakers do not consider themselves Kakabe.

Verus convictor, verus academicus. К 70-летию Николая Николаевича Казанского, 2022

Number in the world’s languages: A comparative handbook, 2022

Какабе - малоизученный язык Гвинеи (моколе < зап. манде < манде < нигер-конго) нескольки... more Какабе - малоизученный язык Гвинеи (моколе < зап. манде < манде < нигер-конго) нескольких небольших этнических групп на Фута-Джаллоне, в большинстве своём двуязычных на пулар. Могут быть выделены четыре диалекта какабе: северозападный (зона Канкалабе), центральный (деревни к востоку и югу от Тимбо), куру-манинка (западный), вурекаба-манинка (южный). Два первых близки друг к другу, их носители называют себя "какабе"; они могут рассматриваться как "ядерный какабе". Носители куру-манинка и вурекаба-манинка отвергают этноним "какабе", их диалекты гораздо менее подвержены заимствованиям из пулар. Бало проведено лексикостатистическое исследование на основе 100-словного списка Сводеша. Оно подтвердило предварительную гипотезу об особой близости между собой диалектов "ядерного какабе" и дистанцированности от них двух других диалектов - которые при этом оказываются всё же ближе к "ядерному какабе", чем язык могофин (микифоре), на кот...

В гвинейском манинка дважды нарушается "принцип прилагательного", сформулированный Леон... more В гвинейском манинка дважды нарушается "принцип прилагательного", сформулированный Леоном Стасеном, с соответствии с которым предикативное прилагательное не может иметь собственной стратегии кодирования, а должно следовать или именной, или глагольной стратегии. Исследование осуществлено на основе Справочного корпуса манинка.

Излагаются базовые сведения о тональной системе языка бамана: два уровневых тона; деление слогов ... more Излагаются базовые сведения о тональной системе языка бамана: два уровневых тона; деление слогов на тонально-доминантные (которым приписывается лексический тон) и рецессивные (не имеющие своего лексического тона). Выделяются три типа двусложных стоп: нейтральные (оба слога равноправны), хореические (первый слог имеет долгий гласный, второй - краткий), ямбические (гласный первого слога обычно редуцируется, второго - реализуется без редукции). В ямбических стопах можно говорить об ударности второго слога и безударности первого, при этом такое противопоставление нельзя свести к долготному контрасту. Такое стопное ударение не проявляет никакой корреляции с делением слогов на тонально-доминантные и рецессивные.

Вопросы языкового родства — Journal of language relationship 18 (3-4), 2021

This paper describes a group of kin terms in Landuma (a Mel language spoken in northwestern Guine... more This paper describes a group of kin terms in Landuma (a Mel language spoken in northwestern Guinea) which have a non-standard phonological structure: they begin with the consonant cluster NC. It is shown that the anomalous properties of these nouns can be explained via their origin: all of them are borrowed from Mande. In Western Mande languages, nouns for elder kin are also anomalous in that they are often unable to adjoin a definite or referential article. It has been suggested previously that this anomaly could be explained by the presence of an archaic nasal prefix, a grammatical marker of elder kin. At the same time, such a nasal prefix is not attested in any modern Mande language. Two hypotheses can be advanced on the origin of the initial nasal element in the anomalous Landuma nouns. According to the first, this element goes back to a nasal prefix reconstructed for nouns referring to elder kin in Mande. If so, the Landuma data can be regarded as an argument for the relatively recent disappearance of this prefix in Mande (i.e., subsequent to the start of close contact between speakers of Proto-Landuma and speakers of Proto-Manding and Proto-Susu). Alternatively, the nasal element can be regarded as a reinterpreted Mande 1SG pronoun ń which, in its possessive function, appears frequently with kin terms. It cannot be excluded that both sources may have been relevant.

Deverbal and deadjectival nominalization in Dan: Not as different as one might think. A reply to Baker & Gondo (2020), 2021

The paper (Baker & Gondo 2020) studies several issues in Dan morphosyntax: the formal differences... more The paper (Baker & Gondo 2020) studies several issues in Dan morphosyntax: the formal differences between verbs, nouns and adjectives; two types of possessive constructions (with alienable and inalienable head nouns) and their syntactic structures; the derivation of nouns from verbs and adjectives; low and high nominalization; and possessive constructions with deverbal and deadjectival nouns. As it turns out, Baker & Gondo's analyses are incorrect in some major points: the key formal differences between verbs, adjectives and nouns have been left unnoticed due to disregard for Dan tonal morphology, and for the same reason, the tonal marking of the high nominalization has also been ignored. Baker & Gondo's syntactic analysis of the possessive construction with alienable nouns as analogous to the Saxon genitive (king's house) cannot be accepted; in fact, it can be compared with the genitive construction seen in English the house of the king. Possessive constructions with deverbal and deadjectival nouns are not as radically opposed as one may think after reading Baker & Gondo's paper; in fact, a noun derived from an intransitive verb can sometimes appear as an alienable noun with respect to its theme, and, conversely, a deadjectival noun can appear as a relational noun with respect to the modified noun.

1. Linguistic and orthographic background 1.1 Affiliation and location 1. ISO 639-3: dnj. Glosson... more 1. Linguistic and orthographic background 1.1 Affiliation and location 1. ISO 639-3: dnj. Glossonym: /dà̰ wȍ/ <꞊Dan-wo>. Auto-ethnonym: sg. /dà̰ ɓɛ̰ / [dà̰ mɛ̰ ] <꞊Dan-mɛ>; pl. /dà̰ ɓɛ̰ ɗṵ / [dà̰ mɛ̰ nṵ ] <꞊Dan-mɛ-nu>. Endo-ethnonyms: /yakuba/ (French); /yakuba/ (Jula); /yàòbâ/ <꞊Yaoba> (Eastern Dan).

Mandenkan, 2021

L'esquisse de grammaire comporte les informations de base sur la phonologie et le morphosyntaxe d... more L'esquisse de grammaire comporte les informations de base sur la phonologie et le morphosyntaxe du dan de l'Est. Dans la partie phonologique, les systèmes cosonantiques et vocaliques sont analysés, de même que le système tonal et les pieds caractéristiques. Les parties de discours du dan sont inventoriées, et chaque classe de lexèmes est analysé du point de vue de ses particularités morphosyntaxiques : les noms, les noms locatifs (avec leur système de déclinaison), les pronoms personnels, les marques prédicatives, les adjectifs, les verbes, les adverbes, les numéros, les déterminants, les pospositions. Les constructions nominales et les types d'énoncés non-verbaux sont traités dans la section syntaxique (la syntaxe de la proposition complexe n'est pas abordée)

West African languages: Linguistic theory and communication, 2020

Bambara (Manding < West Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo) has a specialized clause chaining (cosubordi... more Bambara (Manding < West Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo) has a specialized clause chaining (cosubordinative) construction where the fi rst clause has a verb full-fl edged for TAM and polarity, and verbs of subsequent clauses are in infi nitive; non-initial clauses are not embedded into the initial one and cannot be therefore regarded as subordinate. Characteristics of the Bambara clause chaining are analyzed: scope of operators (illocutionary force, negation), TAM characteristics, same-and different -subjectness. From the evidence of peripheral Manding varieties, a hypothesis concerning the origin of infi nitive from an archaic preposition is advanced.

Faits De Langues, 2016

I am thankful to Coleman Donaldson who has checked my English. 2 73 languages, according to the c... more I am thankful to Coleman Donaldson who has checked my English. 2 73 languages, according to the current edition of the Ethnologue, . ethnologue.com/subgroups/niger-congo. However, this figure should be modified in the view of some recent findings. On the other hand, certain varieties mentioned in the Ethnologue as separate languages should in fact be regarded as dialects of some other languages. *ba-di *Pìi-da(ŋ) cow *nak *nìŋka (W) three *Tati/Tatu (*sàgba, *yàaka) human *nu/ni *núu (SW) four *nai /naγi *náanì (W) black bi(D)/bi(N) *Pi ̰ ̀ (W) tongue *dem/lem *lɛ̰ ɓṼ chicken *čoke *tɔqɛ tree *te/ti *yíti grandparent, child *mama *màmá (W) dog *buha *gbÉlàŋ (?) tooth *niŋ *ɲíŋ to eat *Di *ɗE (spurious) to cough *tu (*tiso) mother *na/ni *ɗã sand *cengi * k ɛ̰ gṼ white *pu(D) *púlú to bite *dum/lun *dóɓũ/ *ɗOŋ 'eat' skin *kwoto *kpoLo to pound *to *tùgu (Vai-Mokole)

Graphemics in the 21st Century

ist an und für sich die intelligentere." Überlegungen zur Bewertung von Schriftsyste men ["Alphab... more ist an und für sich die intelligentere." Überlegungen zur Bewertung von Schriftsyste men ["Alphabetic writing is in and for itself the more intelligent Form". Reflections on the evaluation of writing systems] . . . .

Mandenkan, 2024

Le maninka de Guinée a deux constructions exprimant la prédication qualitative : l’une est verbal... more Le maninka de Guinée a deux constructions exprimant la prédication qualitative : l’une est verbale, avec les marqueurs prédicatifs spécialisés (une construction analogue existe dans la plupart des langues du groupe mandingue), l’autre est la construction avec des adjectifs prédicatifs (qui n’est pas attestée dans les autres langues du groupe). Un sous-type de la construction verbale est celle qualitative augmentative où le verbe qualitatif apparaît avec le suffixe -bá. Cette construction manifeste quelques indices de déverbalisation.
L’inventaire des verbes qualitatifs en maninka de Guinée est réduit, ils sont deux fois moins nombreux qu’en bambara. On observe une distribution complémentaire entre les verbes qualitatifs et les adjectifs prédicatifs. Les notions appartenant aux zones sémantiques « Dimension », « Caractéristiques physiques », « Âge », « Vitesse » sont exprimées surtout par les verbes qualitatifs, celles des zones « Couleurs » et « Qualités humaines » le sont par les adjectifs prédicatifs. La zone « Évaluation » est partagée par les deux classes lexicales.

Mandenkan, 2023

There are three constructions in Guinean Maninka with basic meanings belonging to the future-pros... more There are three constructions in Guinean Maninka with basic meanings belonging to the future-prospective area: the First Future, the Second Future, and the Prospective. This paper, based on elicitation and natural text data, analyzes the semantics and distribution of these constructions. Specifically, it demonstrates the following: the First Future construction (marked by dí) has a broad range of future meanings and can be regarded as the default future construction, it also has a habitual meaning; the less frequent Second Future (marked by dínà) expresses the distant future; the Prospective construction (marked by the verbal suffix ‑tɔ), apart from prospective meaning, can also have future-tense or modal semantics. Additionally, it establishes that the First Future and Prospective constructions are sensitive to the presence of an argument focus in the clause. Finally, it advances hypotheses on the etymology and the evolution paths of each construction and its marker: the Prospective construction may originate from the simultaneity converb (marked by suffix ‑tɔ); the First Future marker, from the qualitative verb dí ‘be pleasant; be easy’; the Second Future marker results from combination of the First Future marker with the verb nà ‘to come’.

Focalization in Bambara, in comparison with Kakabe, 2023

0.2. General information on Bambara and Kakabe Bambara (< Manding < Western Mande < Mande < Niger... more 0.2. General information on Bambara and Kakabe Bambara (< Manding < Western Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo) is the biggest language of Mali (West Africa). It is spoken by more than 4 million L1 speakers and at least 13 million L2 speakers, mainly in Mali, but also in the diaspora. Bambara has some written literature and periodicals, it is widely used in literacy programs and, to some extent, in primary and secondary education. Bambara is a relatively well-described language: there is a reference grammar, a number of university courses and textbooks, big dictionaries, and hundreds of research articles have been published. Bambara is a tonal language with two basic tones, low and high. 1 The basic word order is S AUX (O) V X, where S is a subject, V is a verb, AUX is an auxiliary word expressing grammatical semantics of tense, aspect, mode and polarity (in the Mandeist tradition, AUX are named "predicative markers"), O is a direct object (whose absence makes the verb intransitive), and X is an oblique (indirect object or adjunct), most often represented by a postpositional phrase. The word order in NP is N 2-N 1 (N 1 is the head noun, N 2 is the dependent noun), N-Adj (the adjectival modifier follows the head noun). Kakabe (< Mokole < Western Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo) is a minor Mande language spoken in the Republic of Guinea by approximately 50,000 speakers. It is subject to dialectal variation with Northern Kakabe, Western Kakabe and Central Kakabe as its main dialectal zones. Phenomena related to the expression of focus, which is the main object of this study, are mostly the same across these dialectal zones. The basic grammar of Kakabe is similar to that of Manding, in particular, to Bambara. 1 The Bambara tonal system has been the subject of numerous studies. For a concise presentation, see (Vydrin 2016a). In the present paper, the tonal notation is phonological, following the principles formulated for the Bambara Reference Corpus. In short: tone markers are indicated only on the initial syllable of the tonal domain. The absence of tonal marks on a vowel means that the syllable belongs to the same tonal domain as the preceding one. Otherwise, all Bambara examples are transcribed according to the official Bambara orthography of Mali.

Язык как он есть: Сборник статей к 60-летию Андрея Александровича Кибрика, 2023

Mandenkan, 68, 2022

un autre' dɔ́wɛrɛ *dɔ́ wɛŕɛ 'depuis' kàbíni *kàbí ní 'très, beaucoup' kósɛbɛ, kósɛbɛ *kó sɛbɛ 'bi... more un autre' dɔ́wɛrɛ *dɔ́ wɛŕɛ 'depuis' kàbíni *kàbí ní 'très, beaucoup' kósɛbɛ, kósɛbɛ *kó sɛbɛ 'bien, comme il faut' kóɲùman *kó ɲùman 'de nouveau' kókura *kó kúra 'quand, lorsque' mînkɛ, mínkɛńi *mîn kɛ, *mín kɛńi 'là-bas' yènnínnɔ, yènnɔ̀ *yen nin nɔ ou *yènní nɔ, *yen nɔ Tableau 2. Formes liées recommandées Sens Recommandé Déconseillé 'à l'oubli de' à ɲìnɛ` mà *a ɲinɛma 'derrière le fleuve, sur l'autre rive de fleuve' bá` kɔ́ *bakɔ 'sous la main' bólo kɔŕɔ *bolokɔrɔ 'faire une intrusion; mettre fin, annuler' dàn kári 11 *dankari 'par terre' dùgu` mà *duguma 'jusqu'ici' háli bì *halibi 'pardonner' hàkɛ tó *hakɛto 'comme' í n'à fɔ́ *inafɔ, *i na a fɔ 'comme, comme si' í kó *iko 's'ingérer' k'í sèn` dòn *k'i sendon 'se suicider' k'í yɛrɛ̂ fàga *k'i yɛrɛfaga 'au hasard' kùn fɛ̀ *kunfɛ 'grâce à' nùn mà *nunma, *numa 'au cours de' sèn fɛ̀ *senfɛ 'en marche, en cours, sur pied' sèn kàn *senkan Tableau 3. Formes séparées recommandées

Genitival constructions in Eastern Dan, 2022

In Eastern Dan (< Southern Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo), the common Mande strategies of marking g... more In Eastern Dan (< Southern Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo), the common Mande strategies of marking genitival relations are available, namely head-marking by means of tone, and dependent-marking (by a specialized postposition) in the alienable possession construction. However, against this common background, some important modifications have evolved. The opposition between the head-marked and the head-unmarked constructions, although retained, has become semantically blurred: in the proto-language, the head-marked genitival construction had the semantics of "modification-by-noun", while in the Eastern Dan, this meaning has undergone erosion. In the dependent-marked constructions, a case-like opposition has emerged in the alienable possession constructions: different possessive markers (postpositions) are used depending on whether the head noun of an NP containing the possessive construction stands in the locative case or not. Other postpositions can also serve as markers of genitival relations. In addition, morphological case can sometimes serve to mark genitival relations.

Language in Afric, 2022

Kakabe, an understudied language in Guinea (Mokole < Western Mande < < Mande < Niger-Congo), is s... more Kakabe, an understudied language in Guinea (Mokole < Western Mande < < Mande < Niger-Congo), is spoken by several ethnic groups, mainly of inferior social status, most of which are bilingual in Pular. There are four dialects of Kakabe: Northern (the Kankalabe area), Central (villages to the northwest , east and southeast of Timbo), Kuru-Maninka and Wure-Kaba Maninka. The Northern and Central dialects are close to each other linguistically, their speakers refer to themselves as "Kakabe", and these dialects can be regarded as comprising "nuclear Kakabe"; meanwhile, the speakers of Kuru-Maninka and Wure-Kaba Maninka reject being identified as "Kakabe", and their varieties have far fewer loans from Pular. A lexicostatistical study based on the Swadesh 100-item wordlist has been carried out. It confirmed the preliminary hypothesis of a particular affinity between the "core dialects" and showed that the other two dialects are further removed from them, but not as distant as the Mogofin (Mixifore) language spoken to the south of Boke (extreme NW part of the Republic of Guinea). Therefore, from a linguistic viewpoint, the Wure-Kaba Maninka and Kuru-Maninka varieties can be regarded Kakabe dialects despite the fact that their speakers do not consider themselves Kakabe.

Verus convictor, verus academicus. К 70-летию Николая Николаевича Казанского, 2022

Number in the world’s languages: A comparative handbook, 2022

Какабе - малоизученный язык Гвинеи (моколе < зап. манде < манде < нигер-конго) нескольки... more Какабе - малоизученный язык Гвинеи (моколе < зап. манде < манде < нигер-конго) нескольких небольших этнических групп на Фута-Джаллоне, в большинстве своём двуязычных на пулар. Могут быть выделены четыре диалекта какабе: северозападный (зона Канкалабе), центральный (деревни к востоку и югу от Тимбо), куру-манинка (западный), вурекаба-манинка (южный). Два первых близки друг к другу, их носители называют себя "какабе"; они могут рассматриваться как "ядерный какабе". Носители куру-манинка и вурекаба-манинка отвергают этноним "какабе", их диалекты гораздо менее подвержены заимствованиям из пулар. Бало проведено лексикостатистическое исследование на основе 100-словного списка Сводеша. Оно подтвердило предварительную гипотезу об особой близости между собой диалектов "ядерного какабе" и дистанцированности от них двух других диалектов - которые при этом оказываются всё же ближе к "ядерному какабе", чем язык могофин (микифоре), на кот...

В гвинейском манинка дважды нарушается "принцип прилагательного", сформулированный Леон... more В гвинейском манинка дважды нарушается "принцип прилагательного", сформулированный Леоном Стасеном, с соответствии с которым предикативное прилагательное не может иметь собственной стратегии кодирования, а должно следовать или именной, или глагольной стратегии. Исследование осуществлено на основе Справочного корпуса манинка.

Излагаются базовые сведения о тональной системе языка бамана: два уровневых тона; деление слогов ... more Излагаются базовые сведения о тональной системе языка бамана: два уровневых тона; деление слогов на тонально-доминантные (которым приписывается лексический тон) и рецессивные (не имеющие своего лексического тона). Выделяются три типа двусложных стоп: нейтральные (оба слога равноправны), хореические (первый слог имеет долгий гласный, второй - краткий), ямбические (гласный первого слога обычно редуцируется, второго - реализуется без редукции). В ямбических стопах можно говорить об ударности второго слога и безударности первого, при этом такое противопоставление нельзя свести к долготному контрасту. Такое стопное ударение не проявляет никакой корреляции с делением слогов на тонально-доминантные и рецессивные.

Вопросы языкового родства — Journal of language relationship 18 (3-4), 2021

This paper describes a group of kin terms in Landuma (a Mel language spoken in northwestern Guine... more This paper describes a group of kin terms in Landuma (a Mel language spoken in northwestern Guinea) which have a non-standard phonological structure: they begin with the consonant cluster NC. It is shown that the anomalous properties of these nouns can be explained via their origin: all of them are borrowed from Mande. In Western Mande languages, nouns for elder kin are also anomalous in that they are often unable to adjoin a definite or referential article. It has been suggested previously that this anomaly could be explained by the presence of an archaic nasal prefix, a grammatical marker of elder kin. At the same time, such a nasal prefix is not attested in any modern Mande language. Two hypotheses can be advanced on the origin of the initial nasal element in the anomalous Landuma nouns. According to the first, this element goes back to a nasal prefix reconstructed for nouns referring to elder kin in Mande. If so, the Landuma data can be regarded as an argument for the relatively recent disappearance of this prefix in Mande (i.e., subsequent to the start of close contact between speakers of Proto-Landuma and speakers of Proto-Manding and Proto-Susu). Alternatively, the nasal element can be regarded as a reinterpreted Mande 1SG pronoun ń which, in its possessive function, appears frequently with kin terms. It cannot be excluded that both sources may have been relevant.

Deverbal and deadjectival nominalization in Dan: Not as different as one might think. A reply to Baker & Gondo (2020), 2021

The paper (Baker & Gondo 2020) studies several issues in Dan morphosyntax: the formal differences... more The paper (Baker & Gondo 2020) studies several issues in Dan morphosyntax: the formal differences between verbs, nouns and adjectives; two types of possessive constructions (with alienable and inalienable head nouns) and their syntactic structures; the derivation of nouns from verbs and adjectives; low and high nominalization; and possessive constructions with deverbal and deadjectival nouns. As it turns out, Baker & Gondo's analyses are incorrect in some major points: the key formal differences between verbs, adjectives and nouns have been left unnoticed due to disregard for Dan tonal morphology, and for the same reason, the tonal marking of the high nominalization has also been ignored. Baker & Gondo's syntactic analysis of the possessive construction with alienable nouns as analogous to the Saxon genitive (king's house) cannot be accepted; in fact, it can be compared with the genitive construction seen in English the house of the king. Possessive constructions with deverbal and deadjectival nouns are not as radically opposed as one may think after reading Baker & Gondo's paper; in fact, a noun derived from an intransitive verb can sometimes appear as an alienable noun with respect to its theme, and, conversely, a deadjectival noun can appear as a relational noun with respect to the modified noun.

1. Linguistic and orthographic background 1.1 Affiliation and location 1. ISO 639-3: dnj. Glosson... more 1. Linguistic and orthographic background 1.1 Affiliation and location 1. ISO 639-3: dnj. Glossonym: /dà̰ wȍ/ <꞊Dan-wo>. Auto-ethnonym: sg. /dà̰ ɓɛ̰ / [dà̰ mɛ̰ ] <꞊Dan-mɛ>; pl. /dà̰ ɓɛ̰ ɗṵ / [dà̰ mɛ̰ nṵ ] <꞊Dan-mɛ-nu>. Endo-ethnonyms: /yakuba/ (French); /yakuba/ (Jula); /yàòbâ/ <꞊Yaoba> (Eastern Dan).

Mandenkan, 2021

L'esquisse de grammaire comporte les informations de base sur la phonologie et le morphosyntaxe d... more L'esquisse de grammaire comporte les informations de base sur la phonologie et le morphosyntaxe du dan de l'Est. Dans la partie phonologique, les systèmes cosonantiques et vocaliques sont analysés, de même que le système tonal et les pieds caractéristiques. Les parties de discours du dan sont inventoriées, et chaque classe de lexèmes est analysé du point de vue de ses particularités morphosyntaxiques : les noms, les noms locatifs (avec leur système de déclinaison), les pronoms personnels, les marques prédicatives, les adjectifs, les verbes, les adverbes, les numéros, les déterminants, les pospositions. Les constructions nominales et les types d'énoncés non-verbaux sont traités dans la section syntaxique (la syntaxe de la proposition complexe n'est pas abordée)

West African languages: Linguistic theory and communication, 2020

Bambara (Manding < West Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo) has a specialized clause chaining (cosubordi... more Bambara (Manding < West Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo) has a specialized clause chaining (cosubordinative) construction where the fi rst clause has a verb full-fl edged for TAM and polarity, and verbs of subsequent clauses are in infi nitive; non-initial clauses are not embedded into the initial one and cannot be therefore regarded as subordinate. Characteristics of the Bambara clause chaining are analyzed: scope of operators (illocutionary force, negation), TAM characteristics, same-and different -subjectness. From the evidence of peripheral Manding varieties, a hypothesis concerning the origin of infi nitive from an archaic preposition is advanced.

Gblɯ̏dʌ̄gbɤ̄-dhʌ́n , 2019

Translation of the "Little Prince" in Eastern Dan language (Côte d'Ivoire, South Mande language g... more Translation of the "Little Prince" in Eastern Dan language (Côte d'Ivoire, South Mande language group).

Cours de grammaire bambara

Guide de nouvelle orthographe, dan de l'Est, pour les apprenants familiers avec l'ancienne orthographe, 2019

Présentation de la nouvelle orthographe du dan de l'est (en comparaison avec l'ancienne orthograp... more Présentation de la nouvelle orthographe du dan de l'est (en comparaison avec l'ancienne orthographe).

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The Sumanguru Kante epic song narrated by Abdulaye Sako in Bamana, enregistred by Staphan Bulman.... more The Sumanguru Kante epic song narrated by Abdulaye Sako in Bamana, enregistred by Staphan Bulman. The original Bamana text is provided by discoursive marking and translated into English.

Collection of papers (3 are in English, and 14 are in Russian), mainly on African languages, but ... more Collection of papers (3 are in English, and 14 are in Russian), mainly on African languages, but also some other languages of the world, and on cultural anthropology.

by Natalia Kuznetsova, Sergey Say, Valentin Vydrin, Maxim Kisilier, Maria Kholodilova, Maria Konoshenko, Liza Kushnir, Мехмед Муслимов, Alexander Novik, Tatiana Nikitina, and Maksim Fedotov

В. Ф. Выдрин, Н. В. Кузнецова (отв. ред.). СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, Греческий институт Филологического факультета СПбГУ. 486 c., 2014

"From Bikin to Banbaluma, from the Varangians to the Greeks. Field-inspired essays in honour of E... more "From Bikin to Banbaluma, from the Varangians to the Greeks. Field-inspired essays in honour of Elena V. Perekhvalskaya / Ed. by Valentin F. Vydrin and Natalia V. Kuznetsova. St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoria, 2014, 486 p." A volume in Russian with English abstracts is dedicated to E. Perekhvalskaya’s 60th anniversary and contains papers on Altaic, Greek, Balkan, African, Finnic languages, as well as on language contacts and general theoretical problems.

М.: «Индрик», 2007. — 752 с., 2007

В сборнике представлены результаты системного лексико-типологического исследования, выполненного ... more В сборнике представлены результаты системного лексико-типологического исследования, выполненного на широком языковом материале: на основе единой анкеты описана семантическая зона движения и нахождения в воде (зона плавания, или aquamotion) для более чем сорока языков, представляющих самые разные языковые семьи и ареалы — славянские, балтийские, романские, германские, уральские, тюркские, семитские, кавказские, африканские и др. Статьи написаны специалистами по соответствующим языкам на материале полевых и корпусных исследований. Выделены семантические параметры, типологически значимые для зоны плавания, установлены основные типы метафорических переходов в данной области.
Описаны общие принципы построения семантической типологии, которые могут быть применены к любому лексическому материалу. Книга адресована широкому кругу лингвистов, в первую очередь специалистам по семантике и типологии.

Т. А. Майсак, В. А. Плунгян, Кс. П. Семёнова (ред.). Исследования по теории грамматики. Выпуск 7: Типология перфекта. СПб.: Наука (Acta Linguistiica Petropolitana XII: 2), 2016

22 Old-World Conference in Phonology (poster). Amsterdam, 2025

22 Old-World Conference in Phonology (poster). Amsterdam. , 2025

We need comparative categories suitable for typological study. Making our theoretical assumptions... more We need comparative categories suitable for typological study. Making our theoretical assumptions explicit helps us create a logically consistent system of diagnostic criteria. As abstract mental representations, tonemes are not directly observable and should be deduced from the surface distributional phenomena. Toneme is a basic unit of tonology which can distinguish lexical and/or grammatical meanings.

Paper presented at the Grafematik: Graphemics in the 21st century from graphemes to knowledge, Brest, France., 2018

Paper presented at the Grafematik: Graphemics in the 21st century conference Brest, France, 14 June 2018., 2018

Eastern Dan has five tones, six contours and is largely monosyllabic, so the functional load of t... more Eastern Dan has five tones, six contours and is largely monosyllabic, so the functional load of tone is exceptionally heavy. The orthography responds to this by employing the distinctive Ivoirian tradition of marking tone fully by means of punctuation in word-initial and -final position. In addition, the segmental orthography has considerable over-representation and makes extensive use of umlauts to symbolize vowels. In a quantitative classroom experiment, we tested a recent proposal for radical orthography reform that advocates superscript diacritics for marking tone, biunique correspondence for consonants and vowels, and special characters in place of umlauts. Sixty-eight participants with no previous exposure to written Eastern Dan were taught various combinations of tones and segments in parallel groups and their acquired skills were tested in dictation and oral reading tasks. The results of writing, reading speed (list and text), and reading errors (list) all point to an advantage for the experimental orthography that maintains the existing tone marking strategy, but ensures biunique segmental correspondence and uses special characters for marking vowels. This experiment provides some initial evidence that marking tone with punctuation can be effective, especially for writers, in a language with an exceptionally heavy functional load of tone.