Purpose The fact of language “contact” and its impact on the dynamics of language are
recognized today. Questions relating to this topic no longer derive from marginal studies nor …

African language classification in the latter half of the 20th century has been dominated by
Joseph Greenberg's work classifying African languages into four linguistic genetic …

This chapter provides an overview of the local configurations of language contact in West
Africa. The chapter discusses this region as a zone in which fragmentation and high …

All descriptive and documentary linguists are faced with a fundamental challenge: in order to
reduce their object of enquiry to a manageable entity, they need to trim down the amount of …

This monograph proposes a reconstruction of the lexicon, the morphophonology and the
noun class system of Proto-Fula–Sereer (~ 3500 BP). Fula–Sereer represents one of the six …

Le principal objectif de cette étude est de situer les constructions verbales du wolof dans
une perspective typologique. Il s' agit tout d'abord de proposer une description synthétique …

Приведенный список выглядит, по меньшей мере, странно: в нем через запятую
приводятся факты языка (наши–ваши) и речи (приватизация–прихватизация); лексики …

Le wolof (langue Niger-Congo du groupe atlantique) a gardé les principales fonctionnalités
du système des langues à classes mais il l'a simplifié sous certains aspects et systématisé …

Languages are not discrete, nor do they exist as such separate entities in a multilingual's
mind–they interact (Grosjean 1989; 1994; 2010; Cook 1991; 1992; 2003; Cook et al. 2006; …

Le système des classes nominales du wolof est relativement bien connu car il est mentionné
dans diverses descriptions de cette langue, notamment Delafosse (1927), Senghor (1943) …