Valentin Vydrin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Valentin Vydrin plays a role.
Articles
2021. Chapter 5. Eastern Dan. Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 85–106
Chapter
2011. Ergative/Absolutive and Active/Stative alignment in West Africa: The case of Southwestern Mande. Studies in Language 35:2, pp. 409–443
It is usually believed that non-accusative alignment systems are very rare in Africa. A thorough study of the verbal systems of the Southwestern Mande languages (Looma, Mende, Kpelle) has shown that this group is an exception. The Ergative/Absolutive types of argument coding and semantic alignment… read more | Article
2009. Negation in South Mande. Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond, Cyffer, Norbert, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), pp. 223–260
Southern Mande languages, spoken in Côte-d’Ivoire, Liberia and Guinea, display
different strategies in the expression of negation. The most frequent one consists in
the use of special “negative” series of personal subject pronouns (all Dan languages,
Mano, Tura, Guro, Yaure, Mwan, Beng).… read more | Article
2007. 46. Reciprocal and sociative constructions in Bamana. Reciprocal Constructions, Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. (ed.), pp. 1915–1940
Chapter
2006. Emergence of morphological cases in South Mande: From the amorphous type to inflectional?. Case, Valency and Transitivity, Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.), pp. 49–64
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