| 21 |
On the grammaticalization of the HEAD in Wolof: from reflexivity to topicality.
|
|
|
|
In: Body Part Terms in Linguistic Usage ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01677774 ; Body Part Terms in Linguistic Usage, Dec 2017, Varsoive, Poland (2017)
|
|
Abstract:
International audience ; According to the World lexicon of grammaticalization (Heine & Kuteva, 2001: 167-9), there are two main semantic domains for the grammaticalization of the body part noun for HEAD: the spatial domain with locative prepositions for FRONT or UP markers, and the domain of diathesis with the following grammaticalization chain: HEAD > REFLEXIVE > MIDDLE. In Wolof, an Atlantic language mainly spoken in Senegal, the grammaticalized uses of the noun bopp ‘head’ do not contradict these patterns but, nevertheless, they display remarkable characteristics. Beside its nominal uses for referring to the body part ‘head’ (1), bopp is used as a reflexive pronoun with the possessive determiner (2). However this morpheme did not reach the next grammaticalization step as a middle marker: in Wolof, middle voice is expressed through verbal derivation by an –u suffix (3). Remarkably, as shown by Nouguier Voisin (2002), for a few verbs (e.g. gaañ ‘to hurt’ or noppal ‘to give a rest to’) the two constructions can be used alternatively, the reflexive one emphasizing the responsability of the subject/agent in the action, while for most verbs, either the reflexive (e.g. bëgg ‘to love’) or the middle (e.g. sàggan ‘to be careless about’) construction is obligatory for expressing a self-affected agent. (1)Samaboppdafa-ymettiPOSS.1SGheadFOC.V.3SG-IPFache‘I have headache’ [Diouf 2003](2)Bëggnabopp-amlovePRF.3SGhead-POSS.3SG‘He loves himself’(3)Dafaysol-uFOC.V.3SG-IPFdress-MID‘he is getting dressed’For bopp, the grammaticalization path has followed another direction: out of emphatic uses as an intensive possessive reflexive (4), the syntactic scope of this term has been extended beyond the predicative relation between subject/agent and object/patient, among others, as a topic marker (5).(4)Sàmbayàqnawotobopp-amSambaruinPRF.3SGcarhead-POSS.3SG‘Samba has broken his own car’(5)ndaxñuncisuñubopp, .becausePRO.1PLinPOSS.1PLhead‘because, as for ourselves, .’Based on a corpus study on some radio programs, this paper will study the distribution of roles between reflexive (Geniusiené 1987) and middle (Kemmer 1987) constructions in Wolof, and account for the various syntactic and semantic constraints on the grammatical uses of bopp in Wolof. It will be argued that, in most of its grammatical uses, the ‘head’ in Wolof has retained some nominal features that points to an initial metonymy of the HEAD for the PERSON at the root of the grammaticalization of this noun.
|
|
Keyword:
[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics; body part terms; grammaticalization; head; middle; reflexive; topic
|
|
URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01677774
|
|
BASE
|
|
Hide details
|
|
|
| 22 |
the Wolof Corpus and functional database on predication of the Cortypo project (Constitution de Corpus Oraux pour des recherches Typologiques / Designing spoken corpora for cross-linguistic research)
|
|
|
|
In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01678100 ; 2017, http://cortypo.huma-num.fr/index.html (2017)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 23 |
Predication in Wolof (Atlantic, Niger-Congo)
|
|
|
|
In: Corpus-based cross-linguistic studies on Predication ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01677436 ; Corpus-based cross-linguistic studies on Predication, huma-num, http://cortypo.huma-num.fr/Publication Accessed on DD/MM/YYYY 2017, Corpus-based cross-linguistic studies on Predication (2017)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 24 |
Seven causative suffixes for one language: the case of Wolof ; Sept suffixes causatifs pour une seule langue: le cas du wolof
|
|
|
|
In: CALL 2017 - 47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01677760 ; CALL 2017 - 47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden Unviersity, Maarten Mous, Aug 2017, Leiden, Netherlands (2017)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 25 |
Joola Keeraak : A grammatical introduction
|
|
|
|
In: The Oxford guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01671292 ; Friedrike Luepke. The Oxford guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa, Oxford University Press, In press, The Oxford guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa ; http://global.oup.com/ (2017)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 26 |
the Wolof Corpus and functional database on predication of the Cortypo project (Constitution de Corpus Oraux pour des recherches Typologiques / Designing spoken corpora for cross-linguistic research)
|
|
|
|
In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01678100 ; 2017, http://cortypo.huma-num.fr/index.html (2017)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 27 |
Predication in Wolof (Atlantic, Niger-Congo)
|
|
|
|
In: Corpus-based cross-linguistic studies on Predication ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01677436 ; Corpus-based cross-linguistic studies on Predication, huma-num, http://cortypo.huma-num.fr/Publication Accessed on DD/MM/YYYY 2017, Corpus-based cross-linguistic studies on Predication (2017)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 28 |
On the grammaticalization of the HEAD in Wolof: from reflexivity to topicality.
|
|
|
|
In: Body Part Terms in Linguistic Usage ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01677774 ; Body Part Terms in Linguistic Usage, Dec 2017, Varsoive, Poland (2017)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 29 |
Joola Keeraak : A grammatical introduction
|
|
|
|
In: The Oxford guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01671292 ; Friedrike Luepke. The Oxford guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa, Oxford University Press, In press, The Oxford guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa ; http://global.oup.com/ (2017)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 30 |
Seven causative suffixes for one language: the case of Wolof ; Sept suffixes causatifs pour une seule langue: le cas du wolof
|
|
|
|
In: CALL 2017 - 47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01677760 ; CALL 2017 - 47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden Unviersity, Maarten Mous, Aug 2017, Leiden, Netherlands (2017)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 32 |
Transitivity in the light of Event Related Potentials
|
|
|
|
In: Language and Cognition 6/2: 181-216. ; 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, SLE 2016 ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01494572 ; 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, SLE 2016, University of Naples; SLE, Aug 2016, Naples, Italy ; http://sle2016.eu/ (2016)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 33 |
Content question words and noun class markers in Wolof: reconstructing a puzzle
|
|
|
|
In: Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01832220 ; Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter, 2016, Interrogative and Syntactic Inquiries. Case Studies from Africa, pp.123-146 (2016)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 34 |
Tense and aspect in the Wolof verb system
|
|
|
|
In: Aspectuality and temporality: descriptive and theoretical issues ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01285654 ; Zlatka Guentchéva. Aspectuality and temporality: descriptive and theoretical issues, 172, John Benjamins, pp.171-230, 2016, Studies in Language Companion Series, ⟨10.1075/slcs.172.06rob⟩ ; https://benjamins.com/ (2016)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 35 |
Epistemicity and engagement in the Wolof verb sytstem
|
|
|
|
In: Symposium on evidentiality, egophoricity, and engagement: descriptive and typological perspectives ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01494659 ; Symposium on evidentiality, egophoricity, and engagement: descriptive and typological perspectives, University of Stockholm; University of Helsinki, Mar 2016, Stockholm, Sweden (2016)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 36 |
Content question words and noun class markers in Wolof: reconstructing a puzzle
|
|
|
|
In: ISSN: 0937-3039 ; Frankfurt African Studies Bulletin ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01422883 ; Frankfurt African Studies Bulletin, Rüdiger Köppe, 2016, Interrogative and Syntactic Inquiries. Case Studies from Africa, 23-2011, pp.123-146 ; https://www.koeppe.de/titel_interrogative-and-syntactic-inquiries (2016)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 37 |
Joola Keeraak : A grammatical introduction
|
|
|
|
In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01513257 ; 2016 (2016)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 38 |
Transcategoriality: a functional explanation and some typological insights
|
|
|
|
In: Workshop on transcategoriality ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01494663 ; Workshop on transcategoriality, University of Rouen; Sylvie Hancil, Apr 2016, Rouen, France (2016)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 39 |
Transcategoriality: a functional explanation and some typological insights
|
|
|
|
In: Workshop on transcategoriality ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01840830 ; Workshop on transcategoriality, Apr 2016, Rouen, France (2016)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 40 |
Transitivity in the light of Event Related Potentials
|
|
|
|
In: Language and Cognition 6/2: 181-216. ; 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, SLE 2016 ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01494572 ; 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, SLE 2016, University of Naples; SLE, Aug 2016, Naples, Italy ; http://sle2016.eu/ (2016)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
|
|
