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Verbal morphosyntax in SW Mande Elements of Reconstruction

Verbal morphosyntax in SW Mande Elements of Reconstruction. Kirill Babaev Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Oriental Studies RSUH, 22 March 2013. Project (1 min). “Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction” Starostin’s 2004 Initiative Objectives Participants

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Verbal morphosyntax in SW Mande Elements of Reconstruction

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  1. Verbal morphosyntax in SW MandeElements of Reconstruction Kirill Babaev Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Oriental Studies RSUH, 22 March 2013

  2. Project (1 min) “Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction” Starostin’s 2004 Initiative Objectives Participants Paris Congress 2012 Further perspectives Mande team Work done and to be done

  3. SW Mande Challenge (2 min) Little morphology Vast and complicated tonology Short and uncomparable morphs (V, N, CV) Fast regeneration, duplication and fusion of markers Dropped *N and its influence on morph boundary alternations Reconstructing constructions rather than morphs

  4. SW Mande Type (3 min) Morph positions and origins: (1) Initial (2) Post-subject (3) Post-predicate Post-subject markers resulting in person marker series

  5. SW Person markers (3 min) Reconstruction: Origin: fusion of PS verb markers with person markers PS markers as reduced auxiliary verbs S-V-O-VN > S-Aux-O-V

  6. PS markers in diachrony (2 min) Reconstruction: Origin: fusion of PS verb markers with person markers PS markers as reduced auxiliary verbs S-V-O-VN > S-Aux-O-V

  7. Reconstructibles (5 min)

  8. Conclusions (2 min) • A few morphs may be reconstructed for TA and negation marking in Proto-SWM • Origins of these morhps may in most cases be established in either the noun or the verb system • The basic opposition PFV / IPFV is duly confirmed, the perfective cluster being marked by the basic (unmarked) person marker series • Modality is represented mostly by the imperative and conditional moods (probably irrealis) • Regeneration of the verbal systems and fast ‘cycles of grammaticalisation’ make it a tricky task to go deeper that 1500-2000 years in reconstructing the Proto-Mande verb system

  9. Thanks for your attention babaev@yandex.ru

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