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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The CCP thus permits highly specific searches the exploit the properties of five entities (including ‘language’ and ‘sentence’). For example, one can search for all the languages that have subjunctive clause types (as defined in the Database Property Attribution Guide), or all of the clause types that are non-finite, or all of the Lubukusu sentences that have psych predicates, or all of the predicate types that take raising infinitive complements language internally or cross-linguistically or that presuppose the truth of their clausal complement, or one can search for all of the languages that have C-types (complementizers) that can occur with a given predicate type or that are based on a morpheme meaning ‘say’.