The Afranaph Project: Anaphora in the African Languages

The main goal of the Afranaph Project, as it is presently constituted, is to develop rich descriptions of a wide range of African languages in order to serve the interests of linguistic research into the nature and distribution of empirical patterns in natural language. The first project of our website, and still the one that is the mainstay of our research, has been to explore the distribution of anaphoric morphology and interpretation, but recent initiatives to expand the role of our empirical investigations to other sorts of linguistic phenomena will soon result in sister projects, autonomous, but linked to Afranaph in spirit, by infrastructure, and with respect to a common database.

 

 

 

 

 

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About This Case File: The AQR is complete and all of the sentence data has been entered. However, the anaphoric marker information has not been entered for the Anaphora Portal. Analytic entity data may appear by 2024. The CCQR was also completed for Ewondo and some of the analytic data for the Clausal Complementation portal has been entered. We also hope to complete analytic entity data in 2024. In addition, the DPPQR, the TAQR and the SSBQR were completed for Ewondo and the sentence data was entered into the Afranaph Database. The SSBQR data needs to be revised because the contextual information for scopal interpretation was not entered as "context" because the category did not exist at that time in the database.

Bibliography [pdf] (Compiled by Tajudeen Mamadou Y. in Oct 2020) 

                                                                                                                                    


















 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 


Ewondo Case File Consultant

Christophe Onambélé Manga is a Research Fellow in the CIRCSE Research Centre at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris 8. His research interests include Syntactic Theory, Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Resources developement, and Natural Language Processing tools.