Carlos M. Benítez-Torres
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carlos M. Benítez-Torres plays a role.
Articles
2020 Suppletion in Tagdal: A study of some verb root interactions between Songhay and Tuareg-Berber vocabulary in a Northern Songhay language Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 35:2, pp. 332–359 | Article
Northern Songhay languages are known for combining Songhay and Tuareg-Berber features. Nicolaï (1979) divided these languages into nomadic and sedentary sub-branches, something which Benítez-Torres and Grant (2017) confirmed, bears out very well from a grammatical standpoint. This paper explores… read more
2017 On the origin of some Northern Songhay mixed languages Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:2, pp. 263–303 | Article
This paper discusses the origins of linguistic elements in three Northern Songhay languages of Niger and Mali: Tadaksahak, Tagdal and Tasawaq. Northern Songhay languages combine elements from Berber languages, principally Tuareg forms, and from Songhay; the latter provides inflectional morphology… read more