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  • Language Family: Kwa
  • Topic #1: Discourse
  • Topic #2: Particles
The Dangme clausal connective n The Dangme clausal connective n

The focus of this paper is to analyze the semantics of the general Dangme clausal connective n‘and’, and the pragmatic relations which pertain between clauses which are linked by this marker. The paper describes the nature of the clausal linkage achieved by means of the marker n, examining the nature of the nexus of n-constructions. Like its other natural language counterparts, the semantics of n works in tandem with other crucial features of the linguistic and extra-linguistic context to bring to light specific inter-clausal relations existing between the linked clauses. These inter-clausal relations are pertinent to the derivation of the intended cognitive effects, which render specific n-constructions optimally relevant. The identified pragmatic relations that exist between clauses linked by n are temporal, causal, contrastive, parallel, additive and explanatory. The paper explores the motivation for particularly the explanatory inter-clausal relation, since such a relation has been predicted as unlikely for some other natural language counterparts of n, and it examines the syntactic constraints under which such explanatory relations are possible.


L’objet de cet article est d’analyser les aspects sémantiques en gros de la proposition conjonctive n ‘et’, et les liens fonctionnels qui existent entre les propositions misent ensemble par cette conjonction. Nous mettons en exergue ici la nature des propositions conjonctives créées à l’aide de la conjonction n; ce faisant, nous examinons la nature des liaisons entre ces constructions. Tout comme ses équivalents langagiers naturels, la sémantique de n fonctionne en tandem avec d’autres aspects importants linguistique et extralinguistique pour souligner les liens entre les propositions qui sont rattachées par biais de cette conjonction. Ces liens entre les propositions importent beaucoup quand à la dérivation des effets cognitifs entendus, ce qui rend des constructions spécifiques basées sur n très pertinentes. Les liens pragmatiques identifiés qui relient les propositions unies par n sont de nature temporelle, causative, oppositionnelle, appositionnelle, complémentaire et explicative. Cet article examine les raisons qui soulignent, en particulier, le fonctionnement des propositions unies par n dans le cadre pragmatique explicatif, puisqu’un tel lien est considéré peu probable en ce qui concerne d’autres équivalents naturels langagiers de n; il examine egalement les contraintes syntactiques qui conditionnent l’emploi de ces propositions explicatives.

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