Funktionale Sprachbeschreibung des Jeli (West-Mande)

Author: Holger Tröbs. Series edited by: Raimund Kastenholz.

Series: MaLL Mande Languages and Linguistics / Langues et Linguistique Mandé Volume 3

1998
14 pp. Roman, 241 pp.
1 map, numerous tables, appendix: segmentation of two Jeli fairy tales
Text language(s): German
Format: 160 x 240 mm
420 g
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This study functions as a discourse oriented basic grammar of Jeli, a language belonging to Western Mande and affiliated to the group of Ligbi languages (Jogo, Numu, Hwela). Jeli is spoken by approx. 2,000 speakers around Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire. Because of the dominance of Senufo and Jula in this area Jeli is considered to be an highly endangered language.

The first chapter gives an anthropological sketch of the Jeli, and offers arguments about their geographical origin and historical migrations gained by a comparison of the Jeli’s own oral migration history with the results of the linguistic analysis. The following linguistic part describes the phonemic system and the categorisation of word classes using formal criteria, before broadening the focus by a comparison with semantic and pragmatic parameters. Emphasis is then placed on the analysis of modal, aspect and tense systems and the structure of syntagma, nominal and verbal predicatives.

The results are then applied to the field of narrative discourse by describing the macrostructure of Jeli fairy tales. This documentation of Jeli uses the latest advancements in the fields of typology and grammaticalisation. Thus the study serves to broaden the empirical basis for the typological characterisation of the Western Mande languages.

 

Under these links you will find descriptions of languages and cultures of Côte d’Ivoire (also of non-Mande languages):

Accompanying material:

• Afrikanische Sprachen im Fokus (ISBN 978-3-89645-196-5)
• La qualification dans les langues africaines / Qualification in African Languages (ISBN 978-3-89645-253-5)
• Sprachgeschichte im West-Mande (ISBN 978-3-89645-071-5)
• Sprachtypologie, TAM-Systeme und historische Syntax im Manding (West-Mande) (ISBN 978-3-89645-077-7)

Cross-reference:

• Contes et textes documentaires kwa de Côte d’Ivoire (ISBN 978-3-89645-267-2)
• Grammaire kulango (parler de Bouna, Côte d’Ivoire) (ISBN 978-3-89645-610-6)
• Räumliche Öffentlichkeit in Afrika (ISBN 978-3-89645-242-9)

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Review by Valentin Vydrine, « Mandenkan » 35/1999, 93-97

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