Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages
Edited by Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 68] 2015. vi, 338 pp.
Amina Mettouchi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Amina Mettouchi plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Chapter 12. Food, contact phenomena and reconstruction in Oriental Berber Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 283–329 | Chapter
Berber subclassification is notoriously problematic, due to overlapping innovations and retentions across hypothesized sub-branches. Focussing on Oriental Berber, we analyze the lexicon of food, on the assumption that linguistic contacts within Berber and between Berber and Arabic are reflected… read more
2018 The Interaction of state, prosody and linear order in Kabyle (Berber): Grammatical relations and information structure Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives, Tosco, Mauro (ed.), pp. 261–285 | Chapter
The aim of this paper1 is to show how, starting only from forms belonging to various domains (morphology, syntax, and prosody), it is possible to compute grammatical relations and information structure constructions in Kabyle spontaneous speech.
The study is based on data recorded in… read more
2018 Chapter 10. The influence of the state distinction on word order and information structure in Kabyle and Siwi (Berber) Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 265–296 | Chapter
This paper, based on monologues and dialogues recorded in the field, shows how the presence (Kabyle) or the absence (Siwi) of an inflectional marking on nouns called state impacts the number and functions of grammatical relations and information structure constructions in those two closely related… read more
2015 Functional domains and cross-linguistic comparability Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 257–279 | Article
This paper investigates a strategy other than the one currently implemented in the CorpAfroAs project, allowing cross-linguistic comparison among multiple-language corpora. It involves comparing a database of functional domains and subdomains across languages. The underlying principle is that… read more
2015 Representation of speech in CorpAfroAs: Transcriptional strategies and prosodic units Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 13–41 | Article
This paper surveys the transcriptional aspects of CorpAfroAs, a spoken corpus of Afroasiatic languages, with a focus on the representation of phonemes, morphemes, words, and longer units. We discuss the distinction between prosodic, phonological and morphosyntactic word, as well as that between… read more
2015 Aspect-Mood and discourse in Kabyle (Berber) spoken narratives Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages, Payne, Doris L. and Shahar Shirtz (eds.), pp. 117–144 | Article
The choice among aspectual forms in Kabyle (Berber) discourse that advance the storyline is a matter of stance and genre. Kabyle has at least five aspect-mood forms. Close examination of a folktale shows that Perfective is the main form in narrative sequences that relate events belonging to the… read more
2015 Cross-linguistic comparability in CorpAfroAs Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 221–255 | Article
One of the aims of CorpAfroAs is to allow queries within and across the language samples composing the corpus. Through the study of phenomena represented in several languages of the corpus (directional morphemes, case, and gender) we show that CorpAfroAs indeed allows the retrieval of a body of… read more
2015 Preface Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Preface
2011 Impersonal configurations and theticity: The case of meteorological predications in Afroasiatic Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. and Anna Siewierska (eds.), pp. 307–322 | Article
Impersonal predications are often viewed as structures expressing either agent defocusing, or lack of canonical subject properties. The study of one type of prototypical impersonal predication, meteorological predicates, in various Afroasiatic branches suggests that the subject or agent may not be… read more
2010 Topic-focus articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa, Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz (eds.), pp. 193–232 | Article
This paper deals with the form/function mapping of information structure on word-order in two Berber lects, Taqbaylit (Kabyle) and Tashelhit (Shilha). We claim that the general assumption according to which Berber should be strictly vso is wrong, and we argue for a more cautious approach, that… read more
2009 The system of negation in Berber Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond, Cyffer, Norbert, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), pp. 287–306 | Article
This paper is a survey of the forms and functions of negation in various Berber
languages covering a vast area in West Africa (Kabyle (Taqbaylit), Rifan (Tarifit),
Shilha (Tashelhiyt), Tuareg (Tahaggart, Tayirt), Zenaga). It shows that negation in
Berber is characterized by non-verbal… read more
2009 The grammaticalization of you know: From shared knowledge to control over the co-speaker English Text Construction 2:2, pp. 209–227 | Article
Most accounts of you know as a discourse marker underline shared knowledge as its core value. This study focuses on less standard values of you know where it functions as an introducer of new viewpoints or pieces of information, as a marker of the speakers’ will to impose their viewpoint, or as an… read more
2008 Case marking, syntactic domains and information structure in Kabyle (Berber) Interaction of Morphology and Syntax: Case studies in Afroasiatic, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Erin Shay (eds.), pp. 7–40 | Article
2006 Nonverbal and verbal negations in Kabyle (Berber): A typological perspective Studies in African Linguistic Typology, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard (ed.), pp. 263–276 | Article