SIL International, 2015. — 368 p. While most studies dealing with discourse phenomena focus on only one feature, such as information structure or participant reference, this work provides a more extensive study of the discourse features of a language. Based on the author’s original fieldwork in the language for over a decade and using a selection of eighteen natural...
Université Nationale de Côte d'Ivoire, 1989. — xiii, 238 p. Wobé (Ouobe) is a Kru language spoken in Ivory Coast. It is one of several languages in a dialect continuum called Wèè (Wɛɛ).
Publisher: Paris: E.H.E.S.S. (Thèse de 3ème cycle)
Publication date: 1983
Number of pages: 314
The Kru languages belong to the Niger–Congo language family and are spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the east of Côte d'Ivoire.
School of Oriental and African Studies, 1966. — 160 p. It is hoped that this short Introduction to Grebo may be useful not only to those who wish to acquire some practical knowledge of the language but also to scholars working in the field of West African languages. The book is divided into two parts, the first of which contains a grammatical outline of the language, and the...
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales- INALCO PARIS - LANGUES O', 2014. — 476 p. This work aims to present a grammatical description – as complete as possible – of a South Mande language, Mano (400,000 speakers in Guinea and Liberia), placing it into a typological context, comparing the language with other Mande languages and distinguishing general...
Publisher: Université de Provence
Publication date: 2008
Number of pages: 248
Ce travail qui se consacre à la prosodie du bàsàa, une langue bantoue à tons parlée au
Cameroun, souscrit à une longue tradition d’analyse prosodique développée depuis plusieurs
années au Laboratoire Parole et Langage.
ACCt-ILA, Depot Legal de Cote d'Ivoire, 1983. — 440 p. Le livre compris la famille linguistique kru, parlers bete, la region dida et varietes de la langue, kouya et dialectes, nyabwa et wobe, l'ensemble grebo - les parties ivorienne et liberienne, dialectes bassa et l'ensemble aizi.
Publisher: SIL/University of Texas
Publication date: 1986
Number of pages: 315
Working on a single language is an exciting task, but an even more exciting one is working on several at a time. The structure of one language becomes clear against the backdrop of another. In this book I have presented material from over fourteen Kru languages, focussing on the areas of tense,...
University of California – Berkeley, 2017. — 206 p. The focus of this study is process morphology in Guébie, an endangered Kru language spoken in Côte d'Ivoire. Unlike many primarily affixing morphological systems, much of the morphology in Guébie involves root-internal phonological changes like tone shift and vowel replacement. For this reason, Guébie data have much to offer...
University of British Columbia, 2015. — 432 p. This dissertation examines the syntax and semantics of tense and aspect in Siamou (Niger-Congo, Kru), a language of Burkina Faso. Its purpose is twofold. First, it provides a description of the tense/aspect system of Siamou; to date, this part of the grammar has not been systematically investigated. Second, it tests and sharpens...
St. Petersburg, 2004. - 39 p.
In (Vydrine 2004), I tried to show that striking structural differences between Manding and South Mande languages do not prevent us from reconstructing a single proto-Mande phonological system. In this paper I want to return to that question and ask: how can we explain those differences? A ready answer is: they might be due to the areal influences....
2005. - 10 p.
The Kru languages belong to the Niger–Congo language family and are spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the east of Ivory Coast. The term "Kru" is of unknown origin. According to Westermann (1952) it was used by Europeans to denote a number of tribes speaking related dialects. Marchese (1989) notes the fact that many of these peoples were...
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