Le Maxi du Centre-Bénin et du Centre-Togo

Une approche autosegmentale et dialectologique d’un parler Gbe de la section Fon

Author: Flavien Gbéto. Series edited by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Bernd Heine.

Series: GA Grammatical Analyses of African Languages Volume 8

1997
20 pp. Roman, 193 pp.
2 maps, 3 charts, 1 illustration, 25 tables and numerous diagrams
Text language(s): French
Format: 160 x 240 mm
420 g
Paperback
€ 39.80

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Maxi is a dialect of the Ewe- (Gbe-) dialect continuum, belonging to the Kwa languages of the Niger-Congo language family, which is spoken in some regions of Togo, mainly Centrale region and Plateaux region, and also several regions in Bénin (Collines, Dassa-Zoume, Savalou, Bante, Glazoue and Ouessi). In Bénin, there is an amount to about 90,000 speakers of Maxi (1993), and also in Togo approximately to about 25,000 people (1991).

The present book is based on Covè, a form of Maxi spoken in Bénin, and the mother tongue of the author. Taking autosegmental theory as a linguistic model, the author concentrates on the importance of morphology in Maxi. Besides morphology, also syntax, phonetics, phonology, and tonology of Maxi are being analysed in detail with special emphasis on the importance of tonality in the field of derivation in the broadest sense.

Under these links you will find publications by the author and descriptions of further West African Kwa languages and cultures:

Accompanying material:

• Afrikanische Sprachen im Brennpunkt der Forschung (ISBN 978-3-89645-121-7)
• Les emprunts linguistiques d’origine européenne en Fon (Nouveau Kwa, Gbe: Bénin) (ISBN 978-3-89645-036-4)
• Perspektiven afrikanistischer Forschung / Perspectives de recherches africanistes (ISBN 978-3-927620-82-7)
• Sprachkulturelle und historische Forschungen in Afrika (ISBN 978-3-927620-97-1)

Cross-reference:

• African Media Cultures – Cultures de médias en Afrique (ISBN 978-3-89645-246-7)
• Basic Ewe for Foreign Students (ISBN 978-3-89645-583-3)
• Contes et textes documentaires kwa de Côte d’Ivoire (ISBN 978-3-89645-267-2)
• Conversational Strategies in Akan (ISBN 978-3-89645-262-7)
• Dictionnaire Fon–Français (ISBN 978-3-89645-463-8)
• Dictionnaire Français–Fon (ISBN 978-3-89645-471-3)
• Interrogative and Syntactic Inquiries (ISBN 978-3-89645-723-3)
• Kurzgrammatik des Ewe (ISBN 978-3-927620-19-3)
• Morphophonologie des langues kwa de Côte d’Ivoire (ISBN 978-3-89645-545-1)
• Topics in West African Discourse-Pragmatics (ISBN 978-3-89645-856-8)
• Voices of Affliction (ISBN 978-3-89645-245-0)

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