La langue pana (Burkina Faso et Mali)
Description linguistique, lexique, textes
Author: Klaus Beyer. Series edited by: Gudrun Miehe, Brigitte Reineke, Manfred von Roncador.
Series: Gur Monographs · Monographies Voltaïques Volume 7
20068 pp. Roman, 223 pp.
1 map, 3 diagrams, 3 sonagrams, 10 tables, numerous charts, appendix: Lexique Pana-Français, Liste Français-Pana, 2 narrative texts and 1 ethnographical text with interlinear glossing and French translation
Text language(s): French
Format: 170 x 240 mm
430 g
Paperback
€ 49.80
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This work comprises a detailed phonological, morphological, and syntactic description of the nearly unknown and endangered Pana, a northern Gurunsi language. Pana is spoken in Northwest Burkina Faso and the bordering areas of the Republic of Mali along the river Sourou by approximately 5,000 people.
The present synchronic analysis of Pana is complemented by a historical-comparative excursion. Here the nominal class system which is actually reduced is reconstructed by dint of internal and external evidence. A lexical appendix – Pana-French and French-Pana – and three short Pana stories with interlinear and free French translations conclude the book.
Pana is very interesting for language contact research because it is isolated as a Gurunsi language in an area dominated by Mande languages. A complementary work about the resulting contact phenomena in Pana is in preparation.
Under these links you will find publications by the author – among them his PhD thesis titled “Pferde, Schwerter und Macht” – and descriptions of further West African Gur languages and cultures:
Accompanying material:
- Fremde Nachbarn
(ISBN 978-3-89645-818-6 ) - Grammaire kabiyè – une analyse systématique
(ISBN 978-3-89645-034-0 ) - L’expression de la qualification en naténi (langue gur au Bénin)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-118-7 ) - Le Proto-Oti-Volta-Oriental
(ISBN 978-3-89645-116-3 ) - Les langues gur (voltaïques)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-111-8 ) - Les peuples voltaïques (gur)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-114-9 ) - Noun Class Systems in Gur Languages I
(ISBN 978-3-89645-119-4 ) - Noun Class Systems in Gur Languages I + II
(ISBN 978-3-89645-619-9 ) - Noun Class Systems in Gur Languages II
(ISBN 978-3-89645-611-3 ) - Phénomènes de contact entre les langues minyanka et bambara (sud du Mali)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-113-2 )
Cross-reference:
- Current Approaches to Adamawa and Gur Languages
(ISBN 978-3-89645-233-7 ) - Ein Leben im Dienste der Afrikanistik
(ISBN 978-3-89645-631-1 ) - Language Change under Multilingual Conditions
(ISBN 978-3-89645-724-0 ) - Linguistics across Africa
(ISBN 978-3-89645-510-9 ) - Mechthildian Approaches to Afrikanistik – Advances in Language Based Research on Africa
(ISBN 978-3-89645-226-9 ) - Pferde, Schwerter und Macht
(ISBN 978-3-89645-112-5 ) - Zwischen Bantu und Burkina
(ISBN 978-3-89645-348-8 )
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