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

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