Le dagara-lobr
by A. Delplanque
Paperback (Published)
(September 2012)
ISBN: 9782758401704
Price: $36.00
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The Dagara language is part of the gur branch of the Niger-Congo family, spoken in Burkina Faso and Ghana by some two million people. The variety described here is the lobr (Dissin region in Burkina Faso).With respect to languages ??of this family, the Dagara morphophonology shows considerable erosion due to the process of syllabification: elisions and amalgam vowel and consonant sequences that cause tonal phenomena in terms of modulation, lowering and enhancement.Dagara is characterized by a relative scarcity of connectors and a high frequency of formal juxtapositions, especially in verbal sequences and sequences of propositions. In addition, the remarkable polysemy connectors are offset by the grammaticalization of certain nouns and verbs in many periphrastic constructions.
English summary: The Dagara language is part of the gur branch of the Niger-Congo family, spoken in Burkina Faso and Ghana by some two million people. The variety described here is the lobr (Dissin region, Burkina Faso). French text. French description: Le dagara est une langue de rameau gur de la famille Niger-Congo, parlee au Burkina Faso et au Ghana par quelque deux millions de locuteurs. La variete ici decrite est le lobr (region de Dissin au Burkina Faso). Par rapport aux langues de sa famille, la morphophonologie du dagara temoigne d’une erosion considerable liee a des processus de syllabification: elisions et amalgames dans les sequences vocaliques et consonantiques, qui occasionnent au plan tonal des phenomenes de modulation, d’abaissement et de rehaussement. Le radical nominal n’apparait qu’en composition. Le stock nominal est stratifie comme dans les langues a classes, mais l’accord pronominal marque un genre grammatical independant des suffixes de classe. Le radical verbal apparait soit a l’injonctif, soit dans la narration. Le seul aspect marque est l’inaccompli; le seul mode marque est l’actuel. La reference temporelle de l’enonce se construit a travers la combinaison de l’aspect et du mode avec un jeu de particules fortement polysemiques. Le dagara se caracterise par une relative rarete des connecteurs et une frequence elevee des juxtapositions formelles, notamment dans les sequences verbales et dans les sequences de propositions. Par ailleurs, la polysemie remarquable des connecteurs est compensee par la grammaticalisation de certains noms et verbes au sein de nombreuses constructions periphrastiques.
- By (author) A Delplanque
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