The Factative and Perfect Aspect Markers in Degema and Kalaḅarị

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Language Matters Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/10228195.2021.1879238

E. Kari

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Abstract

Abstract This article discusses the factative and perfect markers in Degema and Kalaḅarị. The research is motivated by the observed similarities and differences in the properties/behaviour of these markers in both languages. The article notes that the factative and perfect markers are monosyllabic in both languages, and that the perfect marker in Kalaḅarị is opaque to vowel harmony because it is prosodically independent. With reference to morphology, it notes that whereas the Degema factative and perfect markers are clitics, their Kalaḅarị counterparts are words. On a morphosyntactic level, the article observes that unlike in Degema, the factative marker in Kalaḅarị does not occur within monomorphemic stems because it is not a clitic. It is further restricted by syllable structure. The findings of this article validate the fact that although languages may have elements with similar features, such elements may not pattern in the same way, and that differences in patterning make each human language unique.

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Degema和Kalaḅarị的分格性和完全性标记

摘要本文讨论了Degema和Kalaḅarị的因子性和完善性标志物。这项研究的动机是观察到两种语言中这些标记的性质/行为的异同。文章指出，在两种语言中，分析标记和完成标记都是单音节的，而Kalaḅarị中的完成标记由于在韵律上是独立的，因此对元音和谐不透明。在形态学方面，它指出，虽然Degema因子和完全标记是关键字，但它们的Kalaḅarị对应物是单词。在形态句法水平上，文章观察到，与Degema不同，Kalaḅarị中的因子标记不发生在单形茎中，因为它不是一个clitic。它受到音节结构的进一步限制。本文的发现证实了这样一个事实，即尽管语言可能具有具有相似特征的元素，但这些元素可能不会以相同的方式进行模式化，并且模式化的差异使每种人类语言都是独一无二的。

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期刊介绍： The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees. Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.