[TACOL] Mezane KONUK │ “Correlative constructions in Abzakh: an interrogative-based structure?”

2024 Apr, 5

Séminaire Terrains, Analyse et COmparaison des Langues (TACOL)

The next session of our TACOL seminar will take place on Tuesday, May 21 at 2:30 pm, on Zoom.

We will have the pleasure to listen to Mezane KONUK (LACITO).

Title of talk: “Correlative constructions in Abzakh: an interrogative-based structure?”

Abstract:

The correlative constructions were first studied in Indo-Aryan languages where a sentence-initial relative clause has a demonstrative correlate in matrix clause. But in recent works, it has been attested that the correlative constructions may show morphosyntactic differences. The reason why the diversity of these constructions has not received a high interest until recently is that they are disguised in another structure attested in the given language (e.g. counterfactuals etc.). Thus, from typological point of view, classification of the correlative types is not easy and requires a detailed look on the morphosyntactic properties of the given language.
From an areal point of view, a classification of the correlatives in the Caucasian languages either as relativization-based or interrogative-based constructions has been proposed. At first sight, Circassian might be considered to have an interrogative-based construction due to the use of interrogative pronouns. Nevertheless, the morphosyntactic properties of a correlative construction and that of a partial interrogative sentence are different, which leads us to reconsider this classification method.
In this talk, we will discuss the morphosyntactic features of the correlative constructions in comparison to those of the interrogative sentences. The data comes from the Abzakh dialect (West Circassian), bringing out an overt counterfactual schema in the correlative constructions.

Key words: correlative constructions, Circassian, Abzakh, interrogative-based correlatives, counterfactuals.

For further information, please contact Lameen Souag

Rencontre des jeunes chercheur·es du LACITO & du LLACAN │ 23 mai 2024, CNRS Villejuif

2024 Apr, 5

Cher.e.s collègues, cher.e.s étudiants.e.s, la prochaine journée des jeunes chercheur·es se déroulera le jeudi 23 mai 2024, sur le campus du CNRS de Villejuif, bâtiment D, de 09h à 17h30.

Dédié aux jeunes chercheur·es du LACITO & du LLACAN, l’objectif de cette journée est de présenter les recherches menées dans un cadre bienveillant, entre jeunes chercheur·es.

Une table ronde sur des questions de terrain sera organisée au cours de la journée. L’objectif de cette table ronde est d’offrir un espace bienveillant de discussion sur des questions relatives à toutes les phases du terrain, des aspects scientifiques aux questions administratives et techniques.

 

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[TACOL] Maria Konoshenko & Maria Khachaturyan │ “Tonal systems in contact: A two-level tone language meets three level tones”

2024 Apr, 2

Séminaire Terrains, Analyse et COmparaison des Langues (TACOL)

The next session of our TACOL seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 20 at 2:30 pm, on site (meeting room 311, CNRS Villejuif Campus) and on Zoom.

We will have the pleasure to listen to Maria Konoshenko & Maria Khachaturyan.

Title of talk:

“Tonal systems in contact: A two-level tone language meets three level tones”

Abstract:

In this talk, we explore the multilingual acquisition of level tones in a contact situation. We analyse production data from Mano and Kpelle, two Mande languages that are only distantly related to each other but are spoken in the same region of Forest Guinea (West Africa). Both languages have level tones, but crucially, in Mano, there is a three-way lexical Low/Mid/High contrast, while Kpelle only features a binary Low/High contrast. We discuss how Kpelle-dominant bilinguals, who have two tonal categories in their dominant language, produce three level tones in Mano, and compare their tonal realisations with those of the benchmarks, i.e. Mano-dominant speakers, as well as with Kpelle benchmark production. We show that Low and High tones in Mano are relatively easy to acquire for Kpelle-dominant speakers, but the Mid tone is challenging for some. We then discuss whether acoustic similarity, tone frequency and phonological markedness can account for the observed variation.

 

For further information, please contact Lameen Souag

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