Akan
The Akan Case File
- Anaphora Questionnaire [pdf]
- Bibligraphy of work on Akan [pdf]
(Last updated October 2021)
Akan Case File Consultant
Dr. Augustina Owusu graduated from the Rutgers University Linguistics program in 2020. Her research interests include tense and aspect in Akan. Dr Owusu is a native speaker of Akan.
Ewondo
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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.
Basaá
About This Case File: We have both an AQR and a CCQR. Although we post the AQR below, there are queries that go unanswered because most of the analysis subsequently took place on a different document which is too incomplete to be posted. Follow-up work on the AQR bogged down because the integration of reflexive and reciprocal markers in the verb stem involved many morphological complexities, including instances where allomorphs of the anaphoric markers appear to be homophones with non-anaphoric meanings. Attempts are made in the Afranaph Portal to distinguish the markers, but the analysis of the RFM anaphoric marker does not distinguish the various allomorphs. The bibliography is very out of date.
- Afranaph Questionnaire Response [pdf]
- Clausal Complementation Questionnaire Response [pdf]
- Bibliography of work on Basaá [pdf]
Basaá Case File Consultant
Paul Roger Bassong currently holds a Ph.D in Linguistics from the University
of Yaounde I. He is a holder of a B.A in English and French linguistics, a
'Maitrise' (postgraduate degree) and an M.A in Linguistics. His research interests
include information structure and the syntax-semantics interface, comparative
and descriptive linguistics, ellipisis in African languages as well as the
development of syntactic theory.
Tiv
About this Case File: Data for this file was collected in 2013 and after some revision it was entered into the database in 2015. Since that time, no new data has been collected. There has been slight revision of the analytic entity data over the years. The original AQR .pdf document needs a bit of editing before it is re-posted. Interested parties can contact us for the static document.
Tiv Case File Consultant
Michael Terhemen Angitso is an African Linguist working on the Tiv(oid) language(s). He is a native speaker of Tiv. He had his Primary School education at Nativity private school, Makurdi, and his Secondary School education at St. James Junior Seminary, Yandev, both in Benue State. Michael had his undergraduate studies in Linguistics at Benue State University, Makurdi and his Postgraduate Studies in Linguistics at University of Ibadan, Ibadan. His areas of interest include Syntax, Morphology and Applied Linguistics.
Tigrinya
About This Case File: The AQR contains much commentary from our consultant, Keffyalew Gebregziabher. Much of the editing of this file as well as the entry of the analytic entities was done by Lindley Winchester under the supervision of Prof. Ruth Kramer (finished in 2016).
- Anaphora Questionnaire Response [pdf]
Tigrinya Case File Consultant
Keffyalew Gebregziabher is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Department of Linguistics. He received his PhD from the University of Calgary; his dissertation is on the grammar of nominal possession in Tigrinya, in comparison to other Semitic languages, namely, Amharic and Hebrew. His research interests include investigating the relationship between alienable and inalienable possession, examining the role of inflectional and copular items, and exploring the structure of nominal phrases, complex predicates and the relationship between clausal and nominal possession in (Ethio-)Semitic languages, using Generative models. He is primarily a syntactician, but he is also interested in the interface between phonology and morphology and syntax and pragmatics.
