Bandial

[aka Banjaal, Banjal,]

Classification: Niger-Congo

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threatened

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Coding and syntactic properties of ditransitive constructions in Jóola Banjal

http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/07_DitransitiveConstructions/pdf/handouts/Handout_Bassene.pdf

- Language spoken in Casamance (South of Senegal) by almost 7,000 speakers. - Northern group / West Atlantic branch / Niger-Congo family (Greenberg, 1963). - Noun class language. - Vowel harmony system: 2 types of vowels according to ATR1 feature. - SVOX clause structure and presence of subject marker is generally obligatory.

JOAN ADRIENNE MALASIG

Ditransitive Conference November 23-25, 2007 Leipzig, Allemagne

Jan. 1, 2007

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