Le koulango, une langue gur à deux genres
The paper deals with two nominal genders attested in a variant of the Gur language cluster. The authors hypothesize that all noun groupings based on differentiated affixes are semantically motivated. The affix on which noun grouping obtains is supposed to convey a semantic value that acts as a commo...
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| author | Zakari TCHAGBALÉ et Kouakou Appoh Enoc KRA |
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| description | The paper deals with two nominal genders attested in a variant of the Gur language cluster. The authors hypothesize that all noun groupings based on differentiated affixes are semantically motivated. The affix on which noun grouping obtains is supposed to convey a semantic value that acts as a common denominator for the nouns grouped together. Generally, in nominal-gender marking languages of the Niger-Congo family, and specifically the Kulango language, when the noun is plural, the plural marking affix replaces the gender marker with a specific morphology indicating clearly the nominal gender. Therefore, the number of the nominal genders is determined by the number of the gender marking morphemes. The Kulango language has four nominal gender markers. But only two agreement patterns are attested : an agreement pattern for nouns of animates and another one for non-animates. The authors of the paper want to show that the system of nominal genders in this language has evolved towards its reduction. Subsequently, they try to account for this decrease in the number nominal genders. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9c2028b9f46647738cf3cc3ed12e36c02024-12-09T15:07:02ZengCercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICOCorela1638-573X2015-12-0113210.4000/corela.4141Le koulango, une langue gur à deux genresZakari TCHAGBALÉ et Kouakou Appoh Enoc KRAThe paper deals with two nominal genders attested in a variant of the Gur language cluster. The authors hypothesize that all noun groupings based on differentiated affixes are semantically motivated. The affix on which noun grouping obtains is supposed to convey a semantic value that acts as a common denominator for the nouns grouped together. Generally, in nominal-gender marking languages of the Niger-Congo family, and specifically the Kulango language, when the noun is plural, the plural marking affix replaces the gender marker with a specific morphology indicating clearly the nominal gender. Therefore, the number of the nominal genders is determined by the number of the gender marking morphemes. The Kulango language has four nominal gender markers. But only two agreement patterns are attested : an agreement pattern for nouns of animates and another one for non-animates. The authors of the paper want to show that the system of nominal genders in this language has evolved towards its reduction. Subsequently, they try to account for this decrease in the number nominal genders.https://journals.openedition.org/corela/4141suffixnoungendernumberGuraffix |
| spellingShingle | Zakari TCHAGBALÉ et Kouakou Appoh Enoc KRA Le koulango, une langue gur à deux genres Corela suffix noun gender number Gur affix |
| title | Le koulango, une langue gur à deux genres |
| title_full | Le koulango, une langue gur à deux genres |
| title_fullStr | Le koulango, une langue gur à deux genres |
| title_full_unstemmed | Le koulango, une langue gur à deux genres |
| title_short | Le koulango, une langue gur à deux genres |
| title_sort | le koulango une langue gur a deux genres |
| topic | suffix noun gender number Gur affix |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/corela/4141 |
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