A typological portrait of Mano, Southern Mande

IF 1.7 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI:10.1515/LINGTY-2020-2050
M. Khachaturyan
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Abstract This paper provides a typological survey of Mano, a Mande language of Guinea and Liberia. It sketches a linguistic portrait of Mano as a representative member of the Southern branch of the Mande family. The family features shared by Mano include S-Aux-O-V-X word order, the parallelism between nominal and verbal syntax, and the ubiquity of passive lability. The branch features include rich tonal morphology, the unstable character of nasal consonants, and rich pronominal paradigms, including auxiliaries that index the person and number of the subject. Some of the features presented here have not been sufficiently analyzed in the Mandeist literature, so it is unclear how unusual Mano is in comparison to other Mande languages in terms of the large class of inalienably possessed nouns, or the clause-level nominalization that may include another clause as its constituent. Finally, some properties are almost certainly specific to Mano, such as the dedicated tonal forms used in conditional clauses. This paper puts Mano in its typological context, elaborating on those features which are cross linguistically well attested versus those which are cross linguistically rare.
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曼德南部马诺的类型学肖像
摘要本文对几内亚和利比里亚的曼德语马诺语进行了类型学考察。它描绘了马诺作为曼德家族南部分支代表成员的语言肖像。Mano共有的家族特征包括S-Aux-O-V-X语序、名词语法和动词语法之间的平行性以及被动不稳定的普遍性。分支特征包括丰富的音调形态、不稳定的鼻辅音特征和丰富的代词范式,包括指示主语的人称和数量的助词。这里提出的一些特征在Mandeist文献中没有得到充分的分析,因此,与其他Mande语言相比,在大量不可分割的名词方面,或者在可能包括另一个从句作为其组成部分的从句级名词化方面,Mano语有多不寻常,目前尚不清楚。最后,一些性质几乎可以肯定是马诺特有的,例如条件子句中使用的专用音调形式。本文将Mano置于其类型学语境中,详细阐述了跨语言证明的特征与跨语言罕见的特征。
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期刊介绍: Linguistic Typology provides a forum for all work of relevance to the study of language typology and cross-linguistic variation. It welcomes work taking a typological perspective on all domains of the structure of spoken and signed languages, including historical change, language processing, and sociolinguistics. Diverse descriptive and theoretical frameworks are welcomed so long as they have a clear bearing on the study of cross-linguistic variation. We welcome cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of linguistic diversity, as well as work dealing with just one or a few languages, as long as it is typologically informed and typologically and theoretically relevant, and contains new empirical evidence.
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