Conditional constructions in Makary Kotoko

Kotoko is a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon, in the region just south of Lake Chad. Based on an analysis of a corpus of texts with helpful input from a mother tongue speaker of the language, this paper presents the forms and functions of conditional constructions. Like other Chadic languages (Fra...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal:	Sean Allison
Format:	article
Langue:	EN FR
Publié:	LibraryPress@UF 2017
Sujets:	conditional Makary Kotoko Chadic Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
Accès en ligne:	https://doaj.org/article/30c55f2abc8f4a8c89eebd754fa5eac2
Tags:	Ajouter un tag Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:30c55f2abc8f4a8c89eebd754fa5eac2
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:30c55f2abc8f4a8c89eebd754fa5eac22021-11-19T03:52:08ZConditional constructions in Makary Kotoko10.32473/sal.v46i1.1072410039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/30c55f2abc8f4a8c89eebd754fa5eac22017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107241https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XKotoko is a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon, in the region just south of Lake Chad. Based on an analysis of a corpus of texts with helpful input from a mother tongue speaker of the language, this paper presents the forms and functions of conditional constructions. Like other Chadic languages (Frajzyngier 1996: 313, 327), conditionals are formally indistinguishable from certain types of temporal constructions. However, unlike other Chadic languages (e.g. Hausa, Baraïn, Lamang, Miya, Goemai, Buwal), Makary Kotoko has no overt marker for the protasis comparable to ‘if’ in English. Instead, the protasis and apodosis are joined by the marker aro ‘then’ which is semantically linked to the apodosis, but is often prosodically realized at the end of the protasis. Conditional constructions are categorized by their semantics based on classifications by Taylor (1997) and Thompson, Longacre & Hwang (2007), and the function of conditional constructions within discourse is explored.Sean AllisonLibraryPress@UFarticleconditionalMakary KotokoChadicPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 46, Iss 1 (2017)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN FR
topic	conditional Makary Kotoko Chadic Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	conditional Makary Kotoko Chadic Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Sean Allison Conditional constructions in Makary Kotoko
description	Kotoko is a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon, in the region just south of Lake Chad. Based on an analysis of a corpus of texts with helpful input from a mother tongue speaker of the language, this paper presents the forms and functions of conditional constructions. Like other Chadic languages (Frajzyngier 1996: 313, 327), conditionals are formally indistinguishable from certain types of temporal constructions. However, unlike other Chadic languages (e.g. Hausa, Baraïn, Lamang, Miya, Goemai, Buwal), Makary Kotoko has no overt marker for the protasis comparable to ‘if’ in English. Instead, the protasis and apodosis are joined by the marker aro ‘then’ which is semantically linked to the apodosis, but is often prosodically realized at the end of the protasis. Conditional constructions are categorized by their semantics based on classifications by Taylor (1997) and Thompson, Longacre & Hwang (2007), and the function of conditional constructions within discourse is explored.
format	article
author	Sean Allison
author_facet	Sean Allison
author_sort	Sean Allison
title	Conditional constructions in Makary Kotoko
title_short	Conditional constructions in Makary Kotoko
title_full	Conditional constructions in Makary Kotoko
title_fullStr	Conditional constructions in Makary Kotoko
title_full_unstemmed	Conditional constructions in Makary Kotoko
title_sort	conditional constructions in makary kotoko
publisher	LibraryPress@UF
publishDate	2017
url	https://doaj.org/article/30c55f2abc8f4a8c89eebd754fa5eac2
work_keys_str_mv	AT seanallison conditionalconstructionsinmakarykotoko
_version_	1718420600470372352

Conditional constructions in Makary Kotoko

Documents similaires