Universität Wien, 2018. — xiv, 273 S. This dissertation covers two central areas for two fundamental objectives. The first is to provide a general discussion on aspects of the grammar of Kusaal, a Mabia (Gur) language spoken in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Togo. This is relevant since not much is known in the literature on this language, especially speaking of the Kusaal spoken in...
University of Ottawa, 2021. — 399 p. This thesis presents a detailed description and analysis of several topics in the grammar of Bago, a Gur language spoken in the central-eastern region of Togo. It covers areas in the phonology, syntax, and semantics of the language. The first chapter provides background information about the history and culture of the Bago people prior to...
University of British Columbia, 2023. — 311 p. Dagaare is a Mabia/Gur language spoken in northwestern Ghana and parts of Burkina Faso. The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the understanding of morphophonological patterns such as vowel harmony, tone alternation, as well as aspectual and nominal inflection using theoretic models such as Optimality Theory and...
University of Manchester, 2013. — 333 p. This thesis provides a detailed study of the semantics, grammar, and pragmatics of positional verbs from a typological perspective in Gurenɛ, a Gur (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Northern Ghana. The study documents and describes Gurenɛ positional verbs in detail focusing on a set of over thirty contrastive positional verbs using a...
University of Ghana, 2018. — 198 p. This thesis investigates “serial verb constructions” in Gurene, a Gur language spoken in the nortern part of Ghana. It examines the defining properties of SVCs, the semantic and the syntactic classification of SVCs in Gurene, using the prototype theory framework. The fundamental principles of the theory which include “prototypicality,”...
University of British Columbia, 1974. — 161 p. This thesis presents a linguistic description of Gurma nouns and verbs based on the Fada N'Gurma dialect. The first chapter introduces the Gurmas to the reader and tells about the first writings in and about their language. Chapter two presents a phonetic and phonemic analysis of the language. Chapter three defines the noun,...
University of North Dakota, 2004. — 140 p. This thesis is an application of Knud Lambrecht’s 1994 work, Information structure and sentence form, to Byali, a Gur language of northwestern Benin (West Africa). In particular, it concerns an analysis of how the different focus structures are marked in Byali, according to Lambrecht’s framework. Given that this is an application of a...
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. — 2015. — Vol. 36. Issue 2. — p. 163-192 In this paper I propose a classification of Waali nouns from a variationist perspective. On the basis of a three-speaker dataset, a classification is deduced from the singular-plural forms that are found in all three idiolects. As a result, a noun class is defined as the clustering of the...
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. — 2016. — Vol. 37. Issue 1. — p. 59-89. Previous researchers differ on what the feature specifications of Dagbani vowels are, what the vowel inventory is, which vowels are contrastive and how phonological processes affect the surface realisation of Dagbani vowels. This study provides experimental results on Dagbani vowel features...
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. — 2013. — Vol. 34. Issue 1. — p. 47-73. This paper deseribes advaneed tongue-root [ATR] harmony in Dagbani, a Gur language of Ghana, foeusing on three distinet segments: triggers, targets, and bloekers of [-fATR] harmony. Dagbani has a bidireetional [ATR] harmony, with [-fATR] as the dominant value. A root [i]triggers a...
Leiden University, 2011. — 350 p. This book is a first comparative study of the Nuni dialects. Nuni is a Gurunsi-Gur language spoken in Burkina Faso. This dialectological study is based on new first hand lexical and sentential data which are presented in the book. The lexical dialectological study shows that the dialect of Yatini (Silly) is closest to all the other dialects and...
University of Ghana, 2018. — 136 p. This study examines the morpho-syntactic properties of the noun phrase in Sɩsaalɩ, a Gur language spoken in Ghana, with emphasis on the internal components of the noun phrase and how these elements are distributed in the phrase. The study examines the elements of both the simple and complex noun phrases. It shows that the Sɩsaalɩ noun phrase...
SIL Electronic Working Papers, 2008. — 40 p. This study is primarily concerned with the phonology of the Nateni language, spoken in the north of Benin in West Africa. It has been the basis for further work in the language and has especially contributed to its orthography design. The description was conducted in terms of segmental phonology and does not include a study of the...
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. — 2016. — Vol. 37. Issue 1. — p. 131-160. This paper presents a re-analysis of the tone of Kabiye nouns. It focuses on two tonal phenomena that have apparently not been reported elsewhere in Gur languages: root melodies associating to whole words and tonal overwriting. All singular suffixes are analyzed as being underlyingly...
Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 2005. — 333 p. (Gur Monographs, 6). En entreprenant une étude comparative historique appliquée aux langues du groupe oriental (le Proto-Oti-Volta-Oriental), je n’ai pas la prétention de procéder à une nouvelle classification, ni de 'vérifier' pour affirmer ou infirmer la parenté de ce groupe de langues établie par Manessy; le choix d'un tel thème a plutôt...
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. — 2014. — Vol. 35. Issue 2. — p. 205-241. Cet article aborde la question des dimensions sémantiques et de la fonction des classes nominales par l’exemple du biali. La thèse centrale défendue dans cette analyse stipule que d’une part, le système de classes nominales du biali, bien que difficile à appréhender, est fondé sur une...
Bayreuth, 2021. — 359 p. This study investigates the influence of the Dagbani language on the Dagomba’s use of English in Ghana. Dagbani, one of the Mabia (Gur) languages spoken in Northern Ghana, and English exhibit some differences grammatically and phonologically. Scholars have discussed Dagbani grammar and phonology. However, its influence on English has not received...
SIL Burkina Faso, 2014. — 409 p. Kusaal / Kusasi is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Ghana, and Burkina Faso. It is spoken by over 150,000 people and takes its name from the Kusaasi people. There are some villages of Kusaasi in Burkina. Kusaal is closely related to Mampruli, the language of the Mamprussi, who live to the south, and to Dagbani.