Paulette Roulon-Doko
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paulette Roulon-Doko plays a role.
2024 Les références floues en Gbaya (R.C.A.) La Référence Floue, Gardelle, Laure and Frédéric Landragin (eds.), pp. 203–222 | Article
Le gbaya, langue oubanguienne (Niger-Congo) de République Centrafricaine, est une langue isolante à faible morphologie uniquement transmise oralement. Tandis que la référence floue consiste, pour les inanimés, en l’emploi du terme mɔ̀ « chose » et de façon plus rare de verbes à sujet nul, elle… read more
2019 Lexicalization patterns in color naming in Gbaya, a Ubanguian language of CAR Lexicalization patterns in color naming: A cross-linguistic perspective, Raffaelli, Ida, Daniela Katunar and Barbara Kerovec (eds.), pp. 133–156 | Chapter
In this chapter, I show that Gbaya, a Ubanguian language of the Central African Republic, does not lexically distinguish color from the visual aspect resulting from a variety of parameters. I first analyze in detail the lexical terms and the grammatical devices that Gbaya uses for color naming.… read more
2017 Chapter 8. Expressing comparison in Gbaya, a Ubangian language of the Central African Republic Similative and Equative Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Treis, Yvonne and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 213–238 | Chapter
Gbaya, an Ubangian language of Central Africa, shows that all types of comparison are qualitative expressions and not quantitative ones involving a parameter of gradation or degree. Following the theoretical framework proposed inFuchs (2014), this chapter first presents the use of the dedicated… read more
2015 Lexicalisation of temperature concepts in Gbaya (an Ubanguian language of C.A.R.) The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 128–150 | Article
This chapter provides a systematic description of the temperature terms found in Gbaya, an Ubanguian language spoken in Central Africa. Gbaya has very few nouns and verbs dedicated to temperature but many adjectives: verbal adjectives and ideophonic adjectives. I first present the word classes and… read more
2001 Le statut des idéophones en gbaya Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.), pp. 287–301 | Article
1993 La négation en gbaya ‘bodoe Topics in African Linguistics: Papers from the XXI Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990, Mufwene, Salikoko S. and Lioba Moshi (eds.), pp. 103–118 | Article