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...
Studies in African Linguistics. Volume 6, 1975. - 29 p. In April and May of 1974 a linguistic survey of what has been called the Kru language was undertaken as a joint project by the Liberian Ministry of Education and The Institute for Liberian Languages. Our purposes were several: 1) to determine the number of Kru dialects and their locations, 2) to determine the nature of...
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,...
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’analyze prosodique développée depuis plusieurs années au Laboratoire Parole et Langage.
Publisher: L'Harmattan Publication date: 2007 Number of pages: 522 ISBN: 2296047181 S'il est vrai que la langue est l'âme d'un peuple, nommer et décrire le réel n'est possible que par un usage approprié des mots, de la grammaire et de la syntaxe dans une langue précise. L'auteur de ce dictionnaire bassa-français/français-bassa offre aux lecteurs la possibilité d'étudier et de...
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.