21.1995, Qs: Contracted Person Markers with the Verb 'to say' in Loko

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Subject: 21.1995, Qs: Contracted Person Markers with the Verb 'to say' in Loko

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Date: 25-Apr-2010
From: Kirill Babaev < kbabaev at gmail.com >
Subject: Contracted Person Markers with the Verb 'to say' in Loko
 

	
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:31:38
From: Kirill Babaev [kbabaev at gmail.com]
Subject: Contracted Person Markers with the Verb 'to say' in Loko

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Dear colleagues,

I would appreciate your advice on the following.

In some of the Mande languages (West Africa) there are paradigms of 
contracted person markers with the verb 'to say', e.g. in Loko 
*bE gE 'you said' > bEE 'you said.' These may denote both the 
progressive and the completive aspect, both the present and the past. 
They form full paradigms for all six person/number slots. 

Are there any other examples of this kind in any other languages of the 
world, and if so, how are they treated in terms of morphology/syntax? Is 
there a specific name to identify a construction like this?

The results of the discussion will be placed online here as a summary.

Thank you in advance,

Kirill Babaev
Moscow 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology




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