Erhard Voeltz’s scientific contributions

... The inalienable possession interpretation has its root in the material part-whole relation between events, rather than in the direct thematic relation between the whole and the part NPs, and this semantic relation is realized syntactically as recursive VP structure. It seems that our analysis can be neatly extended to the IAP in Bantu languages like Swahili (Reach and Rochemont, 1992) and Sotho (Voeltz, 1976) which show strikingly similar patterns. ...

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Event Structure of the Inalienable Possession in Korean

... According to Beck, ideophones do not license affixation, either of inflectional or derivational morphemes. There are, however, exceptions to this morphological generalization, as Voeltz (1971) and Doke (1963) demonstrate that in Zulu, ideophones inflect for the grammatical categories of tense and aspect. However, Ameka (2001, 26) notes that the morphological claim of ideophones not accepting affixation is only valid for languages that have a rich morphological system (inflecting ones), not for a language that is an "isolating language (with agglutinative features)" as is the case of Ewe. ...

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A comparative study of ideophones in Dagbani and Gurenԑ

... As such, the presence of languages of colonial provenance, and their strong association with European nationalist language ideologies based on standardization and monolingualism, or out-dated models of bilingualism conceptualizing it as " two language solitudes " (Cummins 2008) is indeed threatening all other languages. With its current focus on minority languages, the LEL model, aimed at strengthening moribund minority languages through massive interventions (seeBlench 2007;Connell 2007;Dimmendaal & Voeltz 2007for surveys of such language situations in Africa), is therefore not the most helpful one to overcome the continued marginalization of the majority of African indigenous languages. This marginalization affects big and small, majority and minority languages in the same fashion. ...

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Language Endangerment and Language Documentation in Africa

... [Там же, р. 1] При предикативном согласовании эффект синкретизма наблюдается, например, в языке коса (бенуэ-конголезская семья, группа банту, распространен в Восточной Капской провинции ЮАР), где согласование с сочиненными конструкциями невозможно при несовпадении согласовательных классов конъюнктов, кроме тех случаев, когда согласовательные аффиксы предиката для этих классов совпадают, что в свою очередь устраняет конфликт признаков контролеров согласования [Voeltz, 1971]. Так, пример (9) является неграмматичным, т.к. ...

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The role of syncretism in the predicate agreement with coordinate constructions with the Russian correlative conjunction i…i