Valentin Vydrin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Valentin Vydrin plays a role.
Articles
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
2021 Ergative/Absolutive and Active/Stative alignment in West Africa: The case of Southwestern Mande Studies in Language 35:2, pp. 409–443 | Article
2011 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
Negation in South Mande Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond, Cyffer, Norbert, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), pp. 223–260 | Article
2009 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
46. Reciprocal and sociative constructions in Bamana Reciprocal Constructions, Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. (ed.), pp. 1915–1940 | Chapter
2007 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 | Article
2006