title: Pronouns in Ginyanga
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metadata.value: Pozdniakova, Viktoria А.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Aplonova, Yekaterina S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-10-03T14:40:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-10-03T14:40:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Pozdniakova V. A., Aplonova Ye. S. Pronouns in Ginyanga. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, pp. 243–260. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.206 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38072
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper presents a tentative overview of pronouns in Ginyanga, an understudied Kwa language
  spoken in Togo and Ghana; in particular, personal pronouns, reflexive pronouns, demonstratives,
  and quantifiers. There are no subject pronouns in Ginyanga. We define two
  personal pronoun series with a designated pronoun for each noun class: basic (emphatic and
  possessive) and object. The basic set of pronouns is used in independent and possessive contexts,
  as well as in reflexive constructions. The overview of Guang pronoun systems shows that
  Ginyanga falls into the typical Guang pattern. Possessive pronouns of the 1st (human) class
  exhibit some irregularities when used with kinship terms. In some cases, the morphological
  agreement pattern between a noun and its coreferential object pronoun can be violated on a
  semantic basis, e. g. human referents of non-human noun classes. Additionally, there is some
  variation in usage of object pronoun series by different consultants of different age groups,
  which may be an indication of language change. There are two demonstratives, -balɪ “this” and
  -bʊnʊ “that”, also subject to class agreement. In contrast to -balɪ, the demonstrative -bʊnʊ is
  also used in relative clauses and can be anaphoric. The majority of quantifiers demonstrate no
  class agreement. The only exceptions in our data are -kʊ “one” and kpɛkpɛ “each”.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant No. 17-78-20071.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Niger-Congo
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kwa
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Guang
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: noun class
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: noun morphology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pronouns
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Pronouns in Ginyanga
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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