A typological overview of Eegimaa (Jóola Banjal)

This paper presents some of the most prominent properties of Eegimaa, a Jóola/Diola2 language spoken in the Basse-Casamance (Southern Senegal). The phonological features examined include [ATR] vowel harmony, backness harmony, lenition, and Eegimaa’s typologically unusual geminate consonants. Most o...

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Autor principal:	Serge Sagna
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2019
Materias:	Atlantic Jóola noun class semantics non-finite verb classification alienability Nominal TAM Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0b7208238e2848ca92e9f2f1da75e8712021-11-19T03:51:59ZA typological overview of Eegimaa (Jóola Banjal)10.32473/sal.v48i1.1149280039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/0b7208238e2848ca92e9f2f1da75e8712019-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/114928https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428X This paper presents some of the most prominent properties of Eegimaa, a Jóola/Diola2 language spoken in the Basse-Casamance (Southern Senegal). The phonological features examined include [ATR] vowel harmony, backness harmony, lenition, and Eegimaa’s typologically unusual geminate consonants. Most of the paper, however, focuses on Eegimaa morphology. My analysis of the noun class system separates morphological classes from agreement classes (genders), and presents the most important principles of semantic categorization, including shape encoding. I also show that Eegimaa classifies nouns and verbs by the same overt linguistic means, namely, noun class prefixes. I argue that this overt classification of nouns and verbs reflects parallel semantic categorization of entities and events. Other prominent typological features include associative plural marking and nominal TAM marking with the inactualis suffix, which also expresses alienability contrasts. Serge SagnaLibraryPress@UFarticleAtlanticJóolanoun class semanticsnon-finite verb classificationalienabilityNominal TAMPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 48, Iss 1 (2019)
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topic	Atlantic Jóola noun class semantics non-finite verb classification alienability Nominal TAM Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Atlantic Jóola noun class semantics non-finite verb classification alienability Nominal TAM Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Serge Sagna A typological overview of Eegimaa (Jóola Banjal)
description	This paper presents some of the most prominent properties of Eegimaa, a Jóola/Diola2 language spoken in the Basse-Casamance (Southern Senegal). The phonological features examined include [ATR] vowel harmony, backness harmony, lenition, and Eegimaa’s typologically unusual geminate consonants. Most of the paper, however, focuses on Eegimaa morphology. My analysis of the noun class system separates morphological classes from agreement classes (genders), and presents the most important principles of semantic categorization, including shape encoding. I also show that Eegimaa classifies nouns and verbs by the same overt linguistic means, namely, noun class prefixes. I argue that this overt classification of nouns and verbs reflects parallel semantic categorization of entities and events. Other prominent typological features include associative plural marking and nominal TAM marking with the inactualis suffix, which also expresses alienability contrasts.
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A typological overview of Eegimaa (Jóola Banjal)

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