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- Language Family: Kwa
- Topic #1: Aspect and Mood
- Topic #2: Verbs
Cet article porte sur zu (‘devenir’, ‘être’) un verbe qui construit une relation d’état en éwé,
langue de la famille kwa parlée principalement au Ghana et au Togo. La présente étude propose de montrer à travers une analyse distributionnelle, qui tient compte des points de vue temporel, subjectif et notionnel, que zu dans la relation X zu Y, ne construit pas de changement d’état. Son rôle consiste à qualifier Y en tant que la propriété que vérifie effectivement X. En effet, cette qualification est nécessaire dans la mesure où Y est en concurrence avec son complémentaire Y' pour ce qui est de l’instanciation de la deuxième place d’argument que nous représentons ici par les parenthèses dans la relation X zu ( ).
This article focuses on zu (‘to become’, ‘to be’) a verb which constructs a stative relation
in Ewe, a language of the Kwa family spoken mainly in Ghana and Togo. The present
study proposes to show through a distributional analysis, taking into account the temporal,
subjective and notional viewpoints, that zu in the relation X zu Y, does not in itself construct a
change of state. Its role consists in qualifying Y as a property which X actually validates. Indeed, this qualification is necessary insofar as Y competes with its complementary Y' with regard to the instantiation of the second place of argument represented by the brackets in the
relation X zu ( ).