Triangulation as a Research Method in Experimental Linguistics

Suleimanova, Olga; Fomina, Marina

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24340-0_9

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“…Triangulation is a method that allows us to integrate linguistic inference with other types of evidence coming from other fields. This method is used when aiming at capturing "different dimensions of the same phenomenon by using evidence from three distinct scientific disciplines" (see Robbeets et al 2021;Suleimanova & Fomina 2023). This methodology has been of great value to understand the linguistic past of complex linguistic scenarios (see Robbeets et al 2021 for Transeurasian; Rojas-Berscia 2020 for Chachapuya; Urban 2021 for Cholón).…”

Section: Triangulating Evidence From History and Oral Traditionmentioning

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The contact-based emergence of the subject-focus construction in Wolof

Bourdeau,

Rojas-Berscia

2023

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In this article, we focus on the origin of the Wolof subject-focus construction (SFC) from a dynamic perspective. In Wolof, argument focus is expressed morpho-syntactically by means of copulaless cleft constructions consisting of the juxtaposition of the focus and a free relative clause. The free relative clause is headed by a determiner, which takes the form a in the case of the SFC. The determiner a is not found anywhere else in the language outside of SFC. We hypothesise that Wolof borrowed its SFC from Berber languages. The sociohistorical scenario, based on oral tradition, could have been the emergence of Wolof, as a crucible of contact between peoples of diverse origin including Berber groups. This finding is strengthened by the occurrence of other elements common to Wolof and Berber languages, such as clitic attraction, negation, copula insertion, as well as a number of lexical parallelisms.

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Section: Triangulating Evidence From History and Oral Traditionmentioning

confidence: 99%