Denis Creissels
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 971395 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Denis Creissels |
| NOMBRES | Denis |
| APELLIDO | Creissels |
| FIRMA | CREISSELS D |
| AFILIACIONES | Université Lumière Lyon 2 |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4220-7950 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The circumstantial form of Tswana verbs and the notion of participle
This article discusses the status of a set of verb forms found in Tswana and other Southern Bantu languages, designated as participial forms in the South-African Bantuist tradition. The description of the morphological and syntactic properties that distinguish the forms in question from the other inflected forms of Tswana verbs leads to the conclusion that they constitute a dependent mood that can conveniently be designated as circumstantial mood…
Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages
This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets the terminological and analytical stage, presents the methodology used by the different chapters, and provides a typological outlook. The individual contributions address the morphological, syntactic and semantic variation of applicatives, as well as their discourse-pragmatic function. Th…
Applicative Constructions in the World's Languages
The Grammaticalization Path Deictic Spatial Adverb > Adposition
In addition to the grammaticalization of nouns and verbs into adpositions, which has been widely discussed in the grammaticalization literature, this paper identifies and describes a much less well known grammaticalization path, by which deictic spatial adverbs (i.e., words such as English here or there) are converted into adpositions. Based on data from two sub-Saharan languages (Tswana, Bantu and Jóola Fóoñi, Atlantic), this study proposes that…
The circumstantial forms of Tswana verbs and the notion of participle
This article discusses the status of a set of verb forms found in Tswana and other Southern Bantu languages, designated as participial forms in the South-African Bantuist tradition. The description of the morphological and syntactic properties that distinguish the forms in question from the other inflected forms of Tswana verbs leads to the conclusion that they constitute a dependent mood that can conveniently be designated as circumstantial mood…
Coding splits in the adnominal possessive construction and alienability
In the adnominal possessive construction of Mandinka (a West Mande language spoken in Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea Bissau), the possessor NP may be simply juxtaposed to the possessee or flagged by the postposition lá . This coding split shows unusual properties in comparison with most of the languages having formally similar coding splits. Crucially, any noun can be modified by an unflagged possessor, depending on the semantic nature of the posses…
Existential predication and predicative possession in Arabic dialects
In the existential domain, Classical Arabic expresses the ground > figure perspectivization in locational predication by a mere change in constituent order, but Modern Arabic varieties have variously grammaticalized existential particles that tend to acquire verb-like properties. In the possessive domain, Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic have a typical oblique-possessor (or locational possessive) construction in which the possessor phr…
The noncausal/causal alternation and the limits of ambitransitivity in a sample of sub-Saharan languages
The first part of the present article concentrates on noncausal/causal pairs whose noncausal member is a monovalent verb referring to a process typically undergone by concrete inanimate entities. The cross-linguistic variation in the coding of such pairs is analyzed in a convenience sample of 30 sub-Saharan languages from various genetic units. 10 of the 30 languages show an extremely high degree of preference for the ambitransitivity strategy in…
The relative verb forms of Cuwabo (Bantu P34) as contextually oriented participles
Cuwabo (Bantu P34, Mozambique) illustrates a relativization strategy, also attested in some North-Western and Central Bantu languages, whose most salient characteristics are that: (a) the initial agreement slot of the verb form does not express agreement with the subject (as in independent clauses), but agreement with the head noun; (b) the initial agreement slot of the verb form does not express agreement in person and number-gender (or class), …
Topicality and the typology of predicative possession
Recent accounts on the typology of predicative possession, including those by Stassen, recognise a Topic Possessive type with the possessee coded like the figure in an existential predication, and the possessor coded as a topic that is not subcategorised by the predicate and is not related to any syntactic position in the comment, literally: As for Possessor, there is Possessee. The Asian region is explicitly singled out as being a Topic Possessi…
Réfléchi et causatif
Cet article est consacré aux interactions possibles entre réflexivisation et causativisation. Il examine successivement la dérive sémantique de constructions de verbes transitifs combinant causativisation et réflexivisation, la dérive sémantique de constructions de verbes intransitifs combinant causativisation et réflexivisation, et la question des constructions réfléchies implicitement causatives
Typologie linguistique et description des langues en danger
La description des langues en danger est cruciale pour la typologie linguistique, comme source possible d’information sur des types de structures non attestés dans les langues préalablement décrites. Inversement, une bonne information sur l’état des connaissances en typologie est particulièrement utile aux linguistes qui décrivent des langues jusque là peu décrites, ce qui est le cas de la plupart des langues en danger. Toutefois, les typologues …
Akhvakh
Additive coordination, comitative adjunction, and associative plural in Tswana
This paper discusses the contribution of Tswana (Bantu, S31) to the typology of coordination, in particular additive coordination, with an emphasis on the relationship between additive coordination, the expression of comitativity, and plural marking. Tswana has a strict distinction between the additive coordination of NPs, attributive adjectives, and clauses, but uses the same proclitic le lί‐ as an additive coordinator for NPs (‘and’), as an add…
L’impersonnalité dans les langues de la région sénégambienne
La plupart des descriptions de langues ouest-africaines ne soulèvent pas la question de la reconnaissance de constructions impersonnelles, au sens de constructions prédicatives qui posent problème pour la reconnaissance d’un sujet canonique. Cet article montre que des phénomènes syntaxiques largement comparables à ceux pour lesquels cette notion est couramment utilisée se rencontrent aussi en Afrique de l’Ouest, notamment dans les langues de la r…
Niger-Congo
This chapter provides an overview of the derivational processes involving the major lexical categories (nouns and verbs) found in the Niger-Congo languages that have relatively well maintained subsystems whose reconstruction is crucial for the hypothesis of a genetic relationship between the language families grouped in the Niger-Congo phylum: noun classification and verb extensions. Typical Niger-Congo derivational systems are characterized by t…
Functive phrases in typological and diachronic perspective
This paper is concerned with a particular semantic type of noun phrases in secondary predicate function, illustrated by as a negotiator in He was sent as a negotiator . It explores the cross-linguistic regularities in the polysemy patterns characteristic of the markers and constructions having the expression of this meaning as one of their possible uses, and discusses the grammaticalization paths in which they are involved
Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Treatment of Beneficiaries and the Argument vs. Adjunct Distinction
This paper compares the expression of beneficiaries with that of typical arguments and typical adjuncts in a sample of languages illustrating the variation in the extent to which NPs encoding beneficiaries show a syntactic behavior more or less similar to that of typical arguments or typical adjuncts. The observations support the position according to which semantic argumenthood as a comparative concept must be distinguished from its possible syn…
P-lability and radical P-alignment
The study of P-lability in languages in which the relationship between transitive and intransitive predication can be characterized as radical P-alignment must take into account the formal distinction between weak and strong lability, and the semantic distinction between argument structure modifying and argument structure preserving lability. Radical P-alignment is particularly common among Daghestanian languages in which some authors operating w…
Tswana locatives and their status in the inversion construction
Several articles published in the last decade have demonstrated that, in several Sotho-Tswana (S30) and Nguni (S40) languages, locative marking has ceased to be integrated into the noun class system, and preverbal locatives in inversion constructions do not show evidence of being grammatical subjects. Part of the literature on Tswana suggests however that in both respects, Tswana might be different. The present article argues that the locative sy…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Caucasian Languages
Our main goal in organizing the workshop and in editing the current issue is to bring together young linguists working on the relatively less studied Caucasian languages, and to offer them a forum for the exchange of ideas, for comparison of data and of different methods of analysis, as well as for potential future collaborations. Unlike many other linguistic areas or language families, the linguistic study of the Caucasus seems to proceed with i…
Specialized converbs and adverbial subordination in Axaxdәrә Akhvakh
Northern Akhvakh, like other Nakh-Daghestanian languages, has a large inventory of converbs specialized in the expression of various semantic types of adverbial subordination: locative, temporal, conditional, concessive, similative, gradual, and purposive. After outlining the general characteristics of Akhvakh morphosyntax, this paper describes the morphology and the uses of the individual converbs, and discusses the possibility of reconstructing…
Participles and Finiteness
Akhvakh, a Nakh-Daghestanian language belonging to the Andic (sub-) branch of the Nakh-Daghestanian family, has participial relative clauses headed by verb forms that can also head independent clauses. Akhvakh data contradict the inflectional approach to finiteness according to which finiteness as a clausal feature necessarily correlates with the morphological structure of verb forms, and support a constructional approach to finiteness. In partic…
Uncommon patterns of core term marking and case terminology
Tonal morphology of the Setswana verb
Les relatives corrélatives
This paper describes the correlative relatives of Kita Maninka, a West African language inwhich this type of relatives, which involves a relativizer originating from a former demonstrative, constitutes the only available relativization strategy. The author argues that nospecial notion of ‘correlative construction is necessary to account for these correlative relatives, which lend themselves to a straight forward description according to which the…
The relative verb forms of Cuwabo (Bantu P34) as contextually oriented participles
Cuwabo (Bantu P34, Mozambique) illustrates a relativization strategy, also attested in some North-Western and Central Bantu languages, whose most salient characteristics are that: (a) the initial agreement slot of the verb form does not express agreement with the subject (as in independent clauses), but agreement with the head noun; (b) the initial agreement slot of the verb form does not express agreement in person and number-gender (or class), …
P-lability and radical P-alignment
The study of P-lability in languages in which the relationship between transitive and intransitive predication can be characterized as radical P-alignment must take into account the formal distinction between weak and strong lability, and the semantic distinction between argument structure modifying and argument structure preserving lability. Radical P-alignment is particularly common among Daghestanian languages in which some authors operating w…
Uncommon patterns of core term marking and case terminology
Remarques sur la notion de passif et l’origine des constructions passives
L’approche typologique n’a de sens que dans la mesure où on s’efforce d’appliquer de façon cohérente les termes grammaticaux à toutes les langues prises en compte dans la comparaison. Il est bien sûr souhaitable de s’écarter le moins possible de leur usage traditionnel. Mais, une fois dégagée une définition générale qui doit s’efforcer d’être compatible avec l’usage d’un maximum de linguistes décrivant les langues, l’entreprise typologique n’a de…
La place du macédonien dans une typologie syntaxique des langues slaves
La tonalité des finales verbales et la distinction entre formes verbales conjointes et formes verbales disjointes en tswana
L'intégration d'indices pronominaux au mot verbal
Les travaux de Tesnière préfigurent sur plus d'un point les recherches en typologie syntaxique tels qu'ils se sont développés depuis une vingtaine d'années, et qui souvent n'ont fait que confirmer et préciser des hypothèses déjà formulées dans les Éléments de Syntaxe Structurale. On sait ce qu'il en est pour l'étude typologique de l'ordre des constituants de diverses constructions, qui depuis Greenberg a connu un développement spectuculaire. Mais…
The Auxiliarization of re ‘say’ in Setswana
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Syntax and Semantics in Africa (1997)
Remarques sur la notion de passif et l’origine des constructions passives
L’approche typologique n’a de sens que dans la mesure où on s’efforce d’appliquer de façon cohérente les termes grammaticaux à toutes les langues prises en compte dans la comparaison. Il est bien sûr souhaitable de s’écarter le moins possible de leur usage traditionnel. Mais, une fois dégagée une définition générale qui doit s’efforcer d’être compatible avec l’usage d’un maximum de linguistes décrivant les langues, l’entreprise typologique n’a de…
Les systèmes de classes nominales des langues Niger-Congo
On trouve dans presque toutes les familles de langues constituant le phylum Niger-Congo (qui regroupe la majorité des langues parlées en Afrique Noire) une proportion plus ou moins importante de langues attestant le type particulier de classification nominale connu sous le nom de « classes nominales », ou du moins des vestiges d’un système de ce type. Les langues les plus typiques de ce point de vue sont les langues bantoues et les langues atlant…
Valence verbale et voix en tswana
Cet article decrit les proprietes syntaxiques des affixes verbaux encodant des operations sur la valence verbale en tswana, langue bantoue parlee au Botswana et en Afrique du Sud. Dans cette langue, six types d'operations sur la valence verbale sont regulierement encodes au moyen d'affixes verbaux speciaux: reflechi, reciproque, causatif, decausatif, applicatif et passif, mais ces affixes apparaissent aussi dans des constructions qui s'ecartent d…
S-O-V-X Constituent Order and Constituent Order Alternations in West African Languages
Suffixes casuels et postpositions en hongrois
Cet article situe d'abord les suffixes casuels dans le cadre general de la flexion nominale du hongrois, et montre notamment que ces suffixes ne possedent pas tous au meme degre des proprietes de morphemes lies. Par ailleurs, en dehors de l'impossibilite de coordonner directement entre eux deux suffixes casuels, la place occupee par ces suffixes dans l'architecture du groupe nominal est identique a celle qu'occupent les postpositions de la classe…
L’influence des voyelles sur les évolutions des consonnes en tswana (S31)
Quint, Nicolas, Phonologie de la langue koalibe, dialecte réré (Soudan)
L’auteur de cet ouvrage s’était jusqu’ici fait connaître par des monographies consacrées à divers parlers occitans, ainsi que par ses publications sur le créole capverdien. Mais depuis plusieurs années déjà, c’est aux langues kordofaniennes qu’il consacre l’essentiel de son activité de linguiste, et cette phonologie du koalib devrait constituer la première d’une série de publications, qu’on espère aussi fournie que possible, visant à combler l’un…
Participles and Finiteness
Akhvakh, a Nakh-Daghestanian language belonging to the Andic (sub-) branch of the Nakh-Daghestanian family, has participial relative clauses headed by verb forms that can also head independent clauses. Akhvakh data contradict the inflectional approach to finiteness according to which finiteness as a clausal feature necessarily correlates with the morphological structure of verb forms, and support a constructional approach to finiteness. In partic…
Uncommon patterns of core term marking and case terminology
Les relatives corrélatives
This paper describes the correlative relatives of Kita Maninka, a West African language inwhich this type of relatives, which involves a relativizer originating from a former demonstrative, constitutes the only available relativization strategy. The author argues that nospecial notion of ‘correlative construction is necessary to account for these correlative relatives, which lend themselves to a straight forward description according to which the…
Specialized converbs and adverbial subordination in Axaxdәrә Akhvakh
Northern Akhvakh, like other Nakh-Daghestanian languages, has a large inventory of converbs specialized in the expression of various semantic types of adverbial subordination: locative, temporal, conditional, concessive, similative, gradual, and purposive. After outlining the general characteristics of Akhvakh morphosyntax, this paper describes the morphology and the uses of the individual converbs, and discusses the possibility of reconstructing…
Tswana locatives and their status in the inversion construction
Several articles published in the last decade have demonstrated that, in several Sotho-Tswana (S30) and Nguni (S40) languages, locative marking has ceased to be integrated into the noun class system, and preverbal locatives in inversion constructions do not show evidence of being grammatical subjects. Part of the literature on Tswana suggests however that in both respects, Tswana might be different. The present article argues that the locative sy…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Caucasian Languages
Our main goal in organizing the workshop and in editing the current issue is to bring together young linguists working on the relatively less studied Caucasian languages, and to offer them a forum for the exchange of ideas, for comparison of data and of different methods of analysis, as well as for potential future collaborations. Unlike many other linguistic areas or language families, the linguistic study of the Caucasus seems to proceed with i…
Niger-Congo
This chapter provides an overview of the derivational processes involving the major lexical categories (nouns and verbs) found in the Niger-Congo languages that have relatively well maintained subsystems whose reconstruction is crucial for the hypothesis of a genetic relationship between the language families grouped in the Niger-Congo phylum: noun classification and verb extensions. Typical Niger-Congo derivational systems are characterized by t…
Functive phrases in typological and diachronic perspective
This paper is concerned with a particular semantic type of noun phrases in secondary predicate function, illustrated by as a negotiator in He was sent as a negotiator . It explores the cross-linguistic regularities in the polysemy patterns characteristic of the markers and constructions having the expression of this meaning as one of their possible uses, and discusses the grammaticalization paths in which they are involved
Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Treatment of Beneficiaries and the Argument vs. Adjunct Distinction
This paper compares the expression of beneficiaries with that of typical arguments and typical adjuncts in a sample of languages illustrating the variation in the extent to which NPs encoding beneficiaries show a syntactic behavior more or less similar to that of typical arguments or typical adjuncts. The observations support the position according to which semantic argumenthood as a comparative concept must be distinguished from its possible syn…
P-lability and radical P-alignment
The study of P-lability in languages in which the relationship between transitive and intransitive predication can be characterized as radical P-alignment must take into account the formal distinction between weak and strong lability, and the semantic distinction between argument structure modifying and argument structure preserving lability. Radical P-alignment is particularly common among Daghestanian languages in which some authors operating w…
L’impersonnalité dans les langues de la région sénégambienne
La plupart des descriptions de langues ouest-africaines ne soulèvent pas la question de la reconnaissance de constructions impersonnelles, au sens de constructions prédicatives qui posent problème pour la reconnaissance d’un sujet canonique. Cet article montre que des phénomènes syntaxiques largement comparables à ceux pour lesquels cette notion est couramment utilisée se rencontrent aussi en Afrique de l’Ouest, notamment dans les langues de la r…
Akhvakh
Additive coordination, comitative adjunction, and associative plural in Tswana
This paper discusses the contribution of Tswana (Bantu, S31) to the typology of coordination, in particular additive coordination, with an emphasis on the relationship between additive coordination, the expression of comitativity, and plural marking. Tswana has a strict distinction between the additive coordination of NPs, attributive adjectives, and clauses, but uses the same proclitic le lί‐ as an additive coordinator for NPs (‘and’), as an add…
Typologie linguistique et description des langues en danger
La description des langues en danger est cruciale pour la typologie linguistique, comme source possible d’information sur des types de structures non attestés dans les langues préalablement décrites. Inversement, une bonne information sur l’état des connaissances en typologie est particulièrement utile aux linguistes qui décrivent des langues jusque là peu décrites, ce qui est le cas de la plupart des langues en danger. Toutefois, les typologues …
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