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Non-verbal predication and copulas in three Mande languages. / Vydrin, Valentin .
In: Journal of West African Languages, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2020, p. 77-105.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Non-verbal predication and copulas in three Mande languages
AU - Vydrin, Valentin
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Non-verbal predication and copula types are analysed in three Mande languages: Bambara, Guinean Maninka, and Eastern Dan. These languages display considerable divergences. In Bambara, there are three affirmative non-verbal copulas used in different construction types, comprising one formal class. In Guinean Maninka, there is only one non-verbal affirmative copula, and it can be omitted; there is a tendency toward its substitution with a focalization particle. The affirmative non-verbal qualitative construction is copulaless. In both these languages, there is also a verbal copula used in non-default context, and an ostentative copula going back to a verb whose lexical meaning is ‘to look’. In Eastern Dan, copulas are diverse in nature: some are of verbal origin, while others go back to demonstrative adverbs. There are three series of inflectional auxiliary lexemes which are used both in verbal constructions and in constructions with non-verbal predicates, i.e. as copulas.
AB - Non-verbal predication and copula types are analysed in three Mande languages: Bambara, Guinean Maninka, and Eastern Dan. These languages display considerable divergences. In Bambara, there are three affirmative non-verbal copulas used in different construction types, comprising one formal class. In Guinean Maninka, there is only one non-verbal affirmative copula, and it can be omitted; there is a tendency toward its substitution with a focalization particle. The affirmative non-verbal qualitative construction is copulaless. In both these languages, there is also a verbal copula used in non-default context, and an ostentative copula going back to a verb whose lexical meaning is ‘to look’. In Eastern Dan, copulas are diverse in nature: some are of verbal origin, while others go back to demonstrative adverbs. There are three series of inflectional auxiliary lexemes which are used both in verbal constructions and in constructions with non-verbal predicates, i.e. as copulas.
KW - copula
KW - non-verbal predication
KW - Mande languages
KW - Bambara
KW - Maninka
KW - Dan
UR - https://main.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/index.php/downloads/category/137-volume-47-number-1
M3 - Article
VL - 47
SP - 77
EP - 105
JO - Journal of West African Languages
JF - Journal of West African Languages
SN - 0022-5401
IS - 1
ER -
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