Nominalization in Mwan
The paper provides a descriptively oriented analysis of morphosyntactic devices to create nouns from verbs in Mwan, a Southern Mande language. Three main strategies are under discussion: a) combination with a semantically empty word of the target class; b) combination with suffixoids; c) addition of...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/mandenkan, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Mandenkan
2026
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | The paper provides a descriptively oriented analysis of morphosyntactic devices to create nouns from verbs in Mwan, a Southern Mande language. Three main strategies are under discussion: a) combination with a semantically empty word of the target class; b) combination with suffixoids; c) addition of affixes. It is shown that the strategies a) and c) are the most common devices of nominalization in Mwan. Language-specific nominalization operations in Mwan are displayed. Within the first major type, i.e. participant nominalization, the following subtypes are discussed: 1) agent nominalization; 2) non-human participant of action; 3) location nominalization; 4) reason nominalization; and 5) manner nominalization.The second major type, i.e. action nominalization (gerund or the name of action) is argued to be an inflectional form completely grammaticalized and totally productive and predictable in meaning. The hybrid character of the gerund is shown. |
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