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- Language Family: Kwa
- Topic #1: Particles
- Topic #2: Syntax
Etude du marqueur ɖu en éwé
Cet article propose d’analyser le marqueur ɖu.(manger) qui s’inscrit dans le paradigme des verbes d’état en éwé, langue parlée au Ghana et au Togo principalement. Les problèmes liés à ce marqueur sont multiples dans la mesure où les constructions syntaxiques dans lesquelles il apparaît sont variées et les valeurs sémantiques de ses différents emplois paraissent éloignées les unes des autres. Etant donné ces difficultés, l’approche adoptée dans cet article consiste à découvrir les régularités de chacune des constructions syntaxiques et proposer par la suite un mécanisme qui permet de rendre compte du fonctionnement de ɖu (manger) dans son ensemble.
This paper focuses on the marker ɖu. (“eat”) that is classified among stative verbs in Ewe, a language spoken mainly in Ghana and in Togo. The problems related to this marker are multifold in that the syntactic constructions in which it occurs vary tremendously and the semantic values of its different uses do not seem to be closely related. Given these difficulties, the approach adopted in this paper consists of finding out the regularities of each syntactic construction and subsequently proposing a mechanism that enables us to determine the overall function of ɖu.