La parataxe en akyé : étude syntaxique et sémantique à partir des faits prosodiques

This article analyzes the prosodic behavior of akye paratactic constructions in order to check whether prosody can be a criterion to identify these kinds of constructions. Clearly, we determine formal criteria to recognize paratactic constructions in akye. Using the Praat software, we analyze the prosodic contours of these utterances, which helped us to apprehend some regularity in terms of prosodic boundaries. Akye, for information, is a tonal language and tones are likely to influence the intonation curve. This study has also highlighted the difficulty to determine the relations existing between speech clauses by considering only the prosodic structure of an utterance

African Linguistics in Central and Eastern Europe, and in the Nordic Countries

Non peer reviewe

Constructions à objets coréférentiels, le cas de l’akyé

This study investigates coreferential objects in Akye. It shows their syntactic properties and studies their distribution. In fact, it shows that a clausal object shares the same reference with pronoun object in Akye. It also shows that the position of the pronominal object changes while the one of clausal object remains the same

African Linguistics in Asia and Australia

Asian and Australian institutions with a research focus on African languages are of fairly recent vintage. Japan has a strong academic infrastructure devoted to African linguistics, based in several universities and research centres. China looks back more than 50 years of interest in teaching Swahili and other major African languages, recently broadening the scope to encompass other issues of linguistic interest. In South Korea, teaching Swahili was also the precursor of more general African linguistics, allowing for regional specializations of researchers. In Australia, academic interest emerges with the increasing presence of experts on African languages and linguistics in the country