conference Marteen Mous sur le couchitique

[Stephane Robert]

Le LLACAN est heureux de vous convier à la conférence de Maarten Mous qui 
aura lieu à Villejuif (Mo Villejuif-Paul Vaillant-Couturier) en salle 311 
le lundi 5 décembre à 14h00.

Vous trouverez un plan d'accès sur le site:
<http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/PDF/planVJF.pdf>http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/PDF/planVJF.pdf 


Lundi 5 décembre 2005 de 14h00 à 16h00

salle 311

Conférence de Maarten MOUS
(Languages and Cultures of Africa, Leiden University)

L'histoire d'O:
The syntactic and semantic properties of a quantificational and predicative 
suffix in Iraqw (Cushitic, Tanzania)

Abstract

At first sight, the function of the suffixo in Iraqw seems to render the 
noun (phrase) adverbial. Sentential adverbials often contain this suffix 
and nouns with this suffix behave like sentence adverbs, e.g. 
matlo'tomorrow', matlowo'tomorrow (as adverb)'. However, the noun phrase 
with this suffix may also be subject. Verbal nouns that occur outside the 
verbal complex often contain this suffix, e.g./ayto'o dooslaro a-slaa' 
'Maize cultivating I-like'. The suffix is also used to indicate the element 
that is the scope of negation, of yes/no questioning, the theme of the 
question, or the ground for comparison. There is a morpheme that has a 
similar function in the verbal domain and that is in form similar to the 
copula. I have glossed this morpheme pred for predicative. The unified 
function of these morphemes is sub-predication. The meaning of the suffix o 
includes a quantificational aspect: it indicates that the referent is 
constructed of distinguishable entities and that all these entities are 
concerned.
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