Overview Gbe Languages

Overview Maxi Language

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

Maxi is a dialect of the Ewe- (Gbe-) dialect continuum 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 of the author and further descriptions of Kwa languages of West Africa:

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:

• Basic Ewe for Foreign Students (ISBN 978-3-89645-583-3)
• Dictionnaire Fon–Français (ISBN 978-3-89645-463-8)
• Dictionnaire Français–Fon (ISBN 978-3-89645-471-3)
• Kurzgrammatik des Ewe (ISBN 978-3-927620-19-3)

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