A typological overview of Eegimaa (Jóola Banjal)

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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Main Author: Serge Sagna
Format: article
Language:EN
FR
Published: LibraryPress@UF 2019
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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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language EN
FR
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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