Conditionals in Jóola Eegimaa: A descriptive analysis

Conditionals in Jóola Eegimaa: A descriptive analysis

The present study documents and analyzes conditional constructions in Jóola Eegimaa (Eegimaa, henceforth). On the surface, Eegimaa has morphemes which denote conditionality. However, these morphemes, me and éni, do not exclusively mark conditional clauses. They are also found in various other subord...

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Autor principal: Mamadou Bassene
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Publicado: LibraryPress@UF 2017
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conditional
Eegimaa
Niger-Congo
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1343627beb86491e9790dc5dbe5a07732021-11-19T03:52:05ZConditionals in Jóola Eegimaa: A descriptive analysis10.32473/sal.v46i1.1072450039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/1343627beb86491e9790dc5dbe5a07732017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107245https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThe present study documents and analyzes conditional constructions in Jóola Eegimaa (Eegimaa, henceforth). On the surface, Eegimaa has morphemes which denote conditionality. However, these morphemes, me and éni, do not exclusively mark conditional clauses. They are also found in various other subordinate constructions where they introduce various clauses. The heart of my argument is that in Eegimaa, intonation is the most reliable indicator of conditionality. The data has clearly shown that the morphemes me and éni can be omitted in conditional constructions. The analysis has revealed two shared acoustic features between morphologically marked conditional sentences and those conditional sentences which do not contain any conditional morphemes. These features are (1) an intonation break separating the antecedent from the consequent, and (2) the antecedent consistently ending with a falling pitch.Mamadou BasseneLibraryPress@UFarticleconditionalEegimaaNiger-CongoPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 46, Iss 1 (2017)
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collection DOAJ
language EN
FR
topic conditional
Eegimaa
Niger-Congo
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle conditional
Eegimaa
Niger-Congo
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Mamadou Bassene
Conditionals in Jóola Eegimaa: A descriptive analysis
description The present study documents and analyzes conditional constructions in Jóola Eegimaa (Eegimaa, henceforth). On the surface, Eegimaa has morphemes which denote conditionality. However, these morphemes, me and éni, do not exclusively mark conditional clauses. They are also found in various other subordinate constructions where they introduce various clauses. The heart of my argument is that in Eegimaa, intonation is the most reliable indicator of conditionality. The data has clearly shown that the morphemes me and éni can be omitted in conditional constructions. The analysis has revealed two shared acoustic features between morphologically marked conditional sentences and those conditional sentences which do not contain any conditional morphemes. These features are (1) an intonation break separating the antecedent from the consequent, and (2) the antecedent consistently ending with a falling pitch.
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