How a West African language becomes North African, and vice versa

IF 1.7 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2021-07-06 DOI:10.1515/lingty-2021-2083

Lameen Souag

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Abstract Updating the methodology of Hayward, Richard J. 1991. A propos patterns of lexicalization in the Ethiopian language area. In Daniela Mendel & Ulrike Claudi (eds.), Ägypten im afroorientalischen Kontext. Special issue of Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, 139–156. Cologne: Institute of African Studies, using the concept of colexification (François, Alexandre. 2008. Semantic maps and the typology of colexification: Intertwining polysemous networks across languages. In Martine Vanhove (ed.), Studies in language companion series, vol. 106, 163–215. Amsterdam: John Benjamins), this paper, for the first time, provides quantitative evidence that the languages of the West African Sahel/Savanna form a lexical-typological language area characterised by shared colexifications absent further north. It then uses the linguistic comparative method to determine how languages entering or leaving this area, or coming into increasing contact with it at its edges, have converged with their new neighbours within the past millennium. The results indicate sharp differences in the respective roles and rates of borrowing and calquing, with the latter acting almost exclusively to increase shared colexifications.

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西非语言如何变成北非语，反之亦然

摘要更新海沃德的方法论，Richard J.1991。埃塞俄比亚语区词汇化的命题模式。在Daniela Mendel和Ulrike Claudi（编辑）中，gypten im afroorientalichen Kontext。《非洲文化报》特刊，139-156。科隆：非洲研究所，使用colexification的概念（François，Alexandre，2008）。语义图与共诱导的类型学：跨语言的多义词网络交织。Martine Vanhove（编辑），《语言研究》配套系列，第106卷，163–215。Amsterdam:John Benjamins），这篇论文首次提供了定量证据，证明西非萨赫勒/萨凡纳的语言形成了一个词汇类型学语言区，其特征是在更远的北方没有共同的集体语言。然后，它使用语言比较方法来确定在过去的千年里，进入或离开这一地区，或在其边缘与之接触越来越多的语言是如何与新邻居融合的。研究结果表明，借贷和calquing各自的作用和比率存在显著差异，后者几乎完全是为了增加共同的嗜睡症。

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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.