Vous pouvez télécharger le dictionnaire ici. Ce dictionnaire éton-français est en partie une version corrigée et élargie du lexique dans la thèse de doctorat de Mark Van de Velde A description of Eton, soutenue à l’université de Leuven (Belgique) en 2006. Il est aussi...
prefinal version Nominal expressions in the Bantu languages have extraordinary typological characteristics. Their word order patterns are extremely diverse and some of the attested patterns are crosslinguistically very rare, or even unique. The same diversity can be...
Prefinal version This paper presents the Bantu Relative Agreement (BRA) cycle, a scenario of recurrent morphosyntactic change that involves the emergence of relativisers, which are subsequently integrated into the relative verb form, where they can ultimately replace...
Final version. Supplementary materials. Using a very large lexical database and generalized additive modelling, this paper reveals that labial-velar (LV) stops are marginal phonemes in many of the languages of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa that have them, and that the...
Final version. This paper provides proposals for the internal reconstruction of Bena-Yungur [Glottocode: bena1260]. The present-day three-tone system of Bena-Yungur with an opposition between H, M and L must result from a relatively recent process of tonogenesis in...
download According to the existing linguistic atlases, such as Blench (2019) and Eberhard et al. (2020), the language spoken in the Nigerian town of Lau is called Laka [ISO 639-3: lak] and belongs to the Mbumic family of the Adamawa pool within the Niger-Congo...
Prefinal version. This paper provides an analysis of the phenomenon commonly known as external possession in the Bantu languages. On the basis of comparative data, I argue for a prototype approach to the intricate problem of determining the conditions of use of such...
Prefinal version One of the quintessential typological properties of the Bantu languages is their pervasive system of noun classes and noun class agreement. This is undoubtedly the aspect of their grammatical structure that is most discussed in the literature, if only...
Kwakum (A91, ISO 639-3 kwu, glottocode kwak1266) is a cluster of Bantu language varieties spoken in the East Province of Cameroon. Ethnologue distinguishes four dialects: Baki, Betɛn, Til and Kwakum, which is the focus of this description. There is a high degree of...
Download We begin by presenting a concise grammatical overview of Bena-Yungur in Section 2. Section 3 concentrates on the tone rules of the language, viz. tone spread (3.1), tone absorption (3.2) and floating tone attachment (3.3). The joint application of these...
Prefinal version. This paper provides an analysis of two relative clause constructions in the Gabonese Bantu language Orungu that are in complementary distribution. The choice between them is determined by the target of relativisation in a typologically interesting...
Prefinal version. This paper provides an analysis of the gender system of Ɓə́ná-Yungur (glottocode: bena1260), distinguishing noun classes proper, defined as agreement classes, from morphological classes, defined in terms of number marking on nouns. The gender system...
Prefinal version. The only formal characteristic that all restrictive relative clause constructions have in common in Eton is that the relativised noun is marked by means of a prefix í- ~ H- traditionally called the augment. Eton does not normally use a relative...
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