A statistical approach to African personal pronouns
Guillaume Segerer & Martine Vanhove - CNRS LLACAN, France

Research goals

  • To check claims made in WALS (Nichols & Peterson 2008a, 2008b) about the worldwide distribution of certain subsets of pronominal systems by detailed survey of African data.
  • To check if there are any patterns in prononominal systems that could be specific to Africa


    Outline of presentation

    1. The Pronoun database
    2. The WALS claims
    3. African data and methodology
    4. N-m systems in Africa
    5. m-T systems in Africa
    6. m for 1st or 2nd person
    7. Other patterns of African systems
    8. Conclusions
    References
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