La sémantique du prédicat en mwotlap (Vanuatu)

By (author) A. François

Extent: 388 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Language & Linguistics

Series: Collection Linguistique de la Société de Linguistique de Paris

Series volume number: 84

Language: French

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(April 2003)

ISBN: 9789042912717

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Langue melanesienne de tradition orale, le mwotlap (motlav) appartient a la branche oceanienne de la famille austronesienne; il est actuellement parle par environ 1800 locuteurs, au nord de l’archipel du Vanuatu. Tout en decrivant cette langue pour la premiere fois, l’ouvrage cherche plus particulierement a y etudier les mecanismes semantiques associes a la fonction predicative. La reflexion se developpe autour de l’analyse detaillee d’un riche paradigme de marques de temps-aspect-mode (“marqueurs TAM”). Une des originalites typologiques du mwotlap est de rendre ces marques compatibles non seulement avec les verbes, mais aussi avec les adjectifs et les noms, sans qu’il faille y voir une operation de derivation. Sans remettre en cause tout a fait l’opposition verbo-nominale, cette remarquable similarite de traitement des noms et des verbes face a la predicativite et a l’aspectualite permet de nuancer les frontieres entre parties du discours. Si le temps grammatical n’est jamais code en tant que tel, en revanche, chaque element de ce paradigme TAM cumule des valeurs d’aspect, de modalite, et de polarite; il en resulte pas moins de vingt-six marqueurs en tout – dix-neuf affirmatifs et sept negatifs. Pour chaque morpheme pris separement, l’analyse tente de modeliser l’operation abstraite commune a tous ses emplois dans le discours, ainsi que les conditions et les limites de la variation semantique. La coherence du systeme est constamment exploree, de facon a en esquisser l’architecture globale, et a en degager les principes sous-jacents. L’ouvrage s’acheve par une reflexion sur la maniere dont le marquage morphologique du predicat contribue aux strategies pragmatiques mises en oeuvre par l’enonciateur.

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