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This draft was released on the 31 st of March 2021 primarily for use by the Kam community. àcàgbà... more This draft was released on the 31 st of March 2021 primarily for use by the Kam community. àcàgbàn n younger sister (cf. àcì 'child', ágbàn 'female') àcárî n wisdom, wise person (cf. càr 'to tell (a story)') àcɔ́ m n hoe àcɔ́ r n bee (cf. cɔr 'to throw a spear (tone uncertain). Also used for bee-flies.) àcɔ́ r n a propeller used to throw spears (cf. cɔr 'to throw a spear (tone uncertain). Also used for bee-flies.) àcɔ́ r ə gáng n beehive (cf. àcɔ́r 'bee', àgàng 'up') àcẽ́ n war, fighting (cf. ǹcẽ́ 'war') àcɛ́ r n fear àcí n poverty àcì 2 Particle diminutive marker (cf. àcì 'child') àcì 1 n child, boy àcì ígbàn 2 n girl (cf. àcì 'child', ágbàn 'female') àcì ígbàn 1 n daughter (cf. àcì 'child', ágbàn 'female') àcì ígbàn 3 n girlfriend (cf. àcì 'child', ágbàn 'female') àcì ígbàn ə ncwẽ́ n baby girl (cf. àcì ígbàn 'girl', cwẽ̄ 'newborn child') àcì íntē n baby, child (cf. àcì 'child', ántē 'small') àcì ívān 2 n boy (cf. àcì 'child', ávān 'male') àcì ívān 3 n son (cf. àcì 'child', ávān 'male') àcì ívān 1 n bachelor (cf. àcì 'child', ávān 'male') àcì ívān ə ncwẽ́ n baby boy (cf. àcì ívān 'boy', cwẽ̄ 'newborn child') àcì kpírág n spoon (cf. àcì 'diminutive') àcì kùrìkî n Jesus (cf. àcì 'child', kùrìkî 'God') àcì shɔ́ b n stubborn boy (cf. àcì 'child', àshɔ̀b 'possessed person') àcǐ wàngkú Proper Noun human name (cf. àcì 'child', wàngkú 'traditional king') àcírɔ́ g n bitterleaf àcìsɛ́ gé 2 n child (cf. àcì 'child') àcìsɛ́ gé 1 n boy (cf. àcì 'child') àcìsɛ́ gé ꜜgún n younger brother (cf. àcìsɛ́gé 'boy', àgún 'behind') ádā 2 Adjective well (cf. ádā 'cold') ádā 1 Adjective cold (cf. dág 'to be cold') àdágrî 1 n coldness (cf. dág 'to be cold') àdágrî 2 n wetness (cf. dág 'to be cold') àdàm n menstruation àdɔ́ m n beard ádɔ́ mrî & Adjective red (cf. dìndɔ̀m 'red') àdɔ́ ng n south àdɛ́ bɔ́ g n sole of foot (cf. àdɛ̀r 'outside of the belly', àbɔ̀g 'leg, foot') àdɛ́ g 2 n pain àdɛ́ g 1 n disease àdɛ́ g ə ꜜshẽ́ n cancer (cf. àdɛ́g 'disease') àdɛ́ gàng n sky (cf. àdɛ̀r 'outside of the belly', àgàng 'up(side)') àdɛ́ grî n pain (cf. àdɛ́g 'pain') àdɛ́ nyé n palm of hand (cf. àdɛ̀r 'outside of the belly', ànyé 'hand, arm') àdɛ́ r n outside of belly àdɛ́ rî n snore (cf. dɛ̄rī 'to snore') àdíkə̀ rí n sweat (cf. àjíkə́rí 'armpit') àdìm n deep water (cf. lìm 'dive') àdú n angle àfàm 1 n animal (cf. àfàm 'meat'; generally refers to mammals and not to insects, fish, birds and reptiles) àfàm 2 n meat (cf. àfàm 'animal'; food from an animal) àfàm ə nggwɔ́ g n farm animal, domestic animal (cf. àfàm 'animal', ànggwɔ́g 'house') àfàm ə shẽ́ n bush animal, wild animal (cf. àfàm 'animal', àshẽ́ 'bush') àfár n sugar àfàr n lung àfárə̀ mkpã̀ n sugar cane (cf. àfár 'sugar'; tone is uncertain.) àfí n mat àfíb n calf àfíb ə bɔ́ g n calf (cf. àfíb 'calf') àfír 2 n needle àfír 1 n foam àfìyè n a water fetching place, such as a river or a lake áfō Adjective dry (cf. fɔ́g 'to be dry') àfú n shirt àfù 1 n pregnancy (cf. àfù 'womb') àfù 2 n womb (cf. àfù 'pregnancy')

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales École doctorale n°265 Langues, littérat... more Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales École doctorale n°265 Langues, littératures et sociétés du monde LLACAN UMR8135 THÈSE présentée par Jakob LESAGE soutenue le 25 juin 2020 pour obtenir le grade de Docteur de l'INALCO en Sciences du langage : linguistique et didactique des langues A grammar and lexicon of Kam (àŋwɔm), a Niger-Congo language of central eastern Nigeria

Conference Presentations by Jakob Lesage

Language Documentation and Archiving 2024: Recent advances in language documentation and archiving, 5 September 2024, Berlin BBAW, 2024

West-central African linguistic history between Macro-Sudan Belt and Niger-Congo: commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Berlin professorship for African languages and the legacy of Diedrich Westermann, 2021

Colloquium on African languages and linguistics, 2021

Collaborating remotely comes with its own set of challenges.

Approaches to the study of language variation and change in indigenous minority languages (ASIMIL), 2019

Papers by Jakob Lesage

Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), Marseille, 20-25 June 2022, 2022

Typological databases can contain a wealth of information beyond the collection of linguistic pro... more Typological databases can contain a wealth of information beyond the collection of linguistic properties across languages. This paper shows how information often overlooked in typological databases can inform the research community about the state of description of the world's languages. We illustrate this using Grambank, a morphosyntactic typological database covering 2,467 language varieties and based on 3,951 grammatical descriptions. We classify and quantify the comments that accompany coded values in Grambank. We then aggregate these comments and the coded values to derive a level of description for 17 grammatical domains that Grambank covers (negation, adnominal modification, participant marking, tense, aspect, etc.). We show that the description level of grammatical domains varies across space and time. Information about gaps and uncertainties in the descriptive knowledge of grammatical domains within and across languages is essential for a correct analysis of data in typological databases and for the study of grammatical diversity more generally. When collected in a database, such information feeds into disciplines that focus on primary data collection, such as grammaticography and language documentation.

Binominal Lexemes in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, 2022

Binominal compounds and binominal phrases are often assumed to be independent categories. In desc... more Binominal compounds and binominal phrases are often assumed to be independent categories. In descriptions of lesser-known languages, their distinctions are sometimes taken for granted and their commonalities glossed over. These distinctions and commonalities are not always straightforward, however. In this chapter, I define and compare four types of nominal modifier constructions in Pama-Nyungan languages: binominal compounds, descriptive phrases, generic-specific constructions, and inalienable possession constructions. I argue against using (non-)compositionality and figurativity as a criterion to distinguish between compounds and phrases. I illustrate the different ways in which languages may distinguish these four constructions. Not all categories are easily differentiated in individual languages, based on the available data from grammars. There is morphosyntactic overlap between these constructions in many languages, and some languages appear to make more distinctions than others. Cross-linguistic similarities between these categories hint at potential constructional links between compounds and other syntactic structures.

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