Pluractionals in Bole-Tangale languages (West-Chadic)
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Ulrike Zoch
Abstract
The paper provides an overview of verbal plural marking and its function in several Bole-Tangale-languages (West-Chadic A). Verbal plurals – or pluractionals – may express repeated action and/or distributivity in most of these languages. In some of the languages under consideration two verbal plural marking strategies can be identified: partial reduplication and infixation/gemination. While partial reduplication seems to be the most generally applicable device to express repeated action and/or plurality of action, the function of infixation/gemination seems to be more specialized towards distributivity.
Abbreviations
- add
additive
- comp
completive
- det
determiner
- f
feminine
- gem
gemination
- icp
intransitive copy pronoun
- imp
imperative
- inf
infix
- m
masculine
- pf
perfect
- pfv
perfective
- pl
plural
- plur
pluractional
- poss
possession
- red
partial reduplication
- sg
singular
- stat
stative
- suff
suffix
- vent
ventive
- vn
verbal noun
- x
unidentified element, in tables: element present.
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- Introduction
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Verbal number in Goemai (West Chadic)
- On verbal and nominal plurality in languages of the Bade-Ngizim group
- Semantics of number marking in Maaka
- Pluractionals in Bole-Tangale languages (West-Chadic)
- Plurality and pluractionality in Kanuri
- Verbal number and transitivity in Karko (Kordofan Nubian)
- Pluractionals in Dagik
- Once or more often? On pluractionality marking in Tima
- Pluractional marking in Bunia Swahili (Ituri Kingwana)
- Verbal plural in Zande
