Maarten Mous
Biographic Data
| ID | 756696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maarten Mous |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maarten |
| FAMILY NAME | Mous |
| SIGNATURE | MOUS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5867-5180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Konso
This chapter examines the Lowland East Cushitic language of the Afroasiatic phylum spoken in southwest Ethiopia: Konso. It emphasizes that the Konso call themselves Xonsitta and their language Afaa Xonso. The chapter also displays the four dialects of Konso: Faashe, Karatte, Tuuro, and Xolme. The Konso are organized in nine exogamous clans, each with their own chief. They are predominantly farmers who are known for their indigenous terracing syst…
Verb-based restrictions on noun incorporation across languages
Although some characteristics of incorporating verbs and non-incorporating verbs have been proposed in previous studies, little systematic cross-linguistic research has been done on restrictions on the types of verbs that incorporate nouns. Knowledge about possible verb-based restrictions on noun incorporation may, however, provide important insights for theoretical approaches to noun incorporation, in particular regarding the question to what ex…
Language contact
Chapter 12 deals with language contact. Bantu languages are in contact with other Bantu languages and with languages of the Ubangi, Central Sudanic, Cushitic, Nilotic, Malagasy and various Khoisan families. Contact with non-Bantu languages is to various degrees and resulted in various outcomes; contact within Bantu needs to be established on the basis of careful use of reconstruction. Language contact can lead to radically different languages suc…
Using a discourse adverb to correct expectations an analysis of mak in Iraqw: An analysis of mak in Iraqw
The discourse verbal adverb mak was initially defined as both indicating stance and having the pragmatic function of hedging. In a further analysis using a corpus of Iraqw literature, this paper shows the function of the verbal adverb in Iraqw storytelling and proposes that mak is not related to stance. Instead, it was found that the verbal adverb acts at the discourse level highlighting an important aspect of a story, by organising contrasting i…
Valency and expectation in Bantu applicatives
Bantu applicatives are standardly analysed syntactically, as encoding a change in valency. However, in many cases applicatives do not change valency, but are rather related to a change in interpretation. In particular pragmatic functions of applicatives related to focus and emphasis are often noted in the description of individual languages, but are very rarely reflected in typological or theoretical work. To address this problem, this paper deve…
Engsh, a Kenyan middle class youth language parallel to Sheng
Youth ‘languages’ are an important topic of research in the domain of linguistic change through language contact because the change is rapid and observable and also because the social dimension of change is inevitably present. Engsh, as a youth language in Kenya expresses not only modernity and Kenyan identity but also, the status of being educated, and it differs in this respect from Sheng, the dominant Kenyan youth language. The element of Engs…
TAM-full object-verb order in the Mbam languages of Cameroon
Nen and Nyokon are unique among the Bantu languages in allowing full nominal objects between the tense/aspect marker and the verb. Despite the fact that the two languages are neighbours and related they make different use of this positional option. In Nen the position is the default one for objects and the post-verbal position renders an object discrete and suitable for quantified objects and for contrast. In Nyokon the position before the verb i…
The Middle in Cushitic Languages
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages (2001)
Challenges of Cushitic reduplication for Generalized Template Theory
In this paper we investigate two typical Cushitic reduplication patterns, CVC- initial and -C final. They were chosen, as they would appear to be especially problematic for the generalized template theory of reduplication developed within OT: neither CVC- nor -C is an unmarked syllable or unmarked metrical foot. The challenge for any analysis is to motivate why these shapes are unmarked. We propose that CVC- is a minimal root, and variations in t…
Recollecting Words and Expressions in Aasá, a Dead Language in Tanzania
Aasá, a Cushitic language, was formerly spoken by a hunter-gatherer community that constitutes a servant group to the Maasai in northern Tanzania. Given that none of the ethnic Aasá surveyed in this study had ever spoken this language, their memory of it is remarkable and raises questions about how it is remembered. In this article, we consider what our corpus of collected data reveals about the patterns of recollection of Aasá and compare these …
Verbal system and diathesis derivations in Seereer
The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation and its relevance for Ma’á
Incorporation: A comparison between Iraqw and Dutch
The focus of this paper is the notion incorporation as it has been used and discussed in recent literature on the morphology/syntax interface. We first give a brief survey of the main issues in the theoretical discussion, and we point out that the dichotomy lexical or syntactic doesn't seem to do justice to the facts. We then exemplify our claim by a comparative analysis in some detail of incorporation-like phenomena in two unrelated languages: o…
The Middle in Cushitic Languages
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages (2001)
The e/a Alternation in Mbugu: The Limits of Allomorphy
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Mixed Languages: 15 Case Studies in Language Intertwining
Transparent consonants
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The autosegmental analysis of reduced vowel harmony systems: The case of Tunen
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The autosegmental analysis of reduced vowel harmony systems: The case of Tunen
Transparent consonants
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Mixed Languages: 15 Case Studies in Language Intertwining
The e/a Alternation in Mbugu: The Limits of Allomorphy
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The Middle in Cushitic Languages
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages (2001)
Incorporation: A comparison between Iraqw and Dutch
The focus of this paper is the notion incorporation as it has been used and discussed in recent literature on the morphology/syntax interface. We first give a brief survey of the main issues in the theoretical discussion, and we point out that the dichotomy lexical or syntactic doesn't seem to do justice to the facts. We then exemplify our claim by a comparative analysis in some detail of incorporation-like phenomena in two unrelated languages: o…
The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation and its relevance for Ma’á
Verbal system and diathesis derivations in Seereer
Recollecting Words and Expressions in Aasá, a Dead Language in Tanzania
Aasá, a Cushitic language, was formerly spoken by a hunter-gatherer community that constitutes a servant group to the Maasai in northern Tanzania. Given that none of the ethnic Aasá surveyed in this study had ever spoken this language, their memory of it is remarkable and raises questions about how it is remembered. In this article, we consider what our corpus of collected data reveals about the patterns of recollection of Aasá and compare these …
Challenges of Cushitic reduplication for Generalized Template Theory
In this paper we investigate two typical Cushitic reduplication patterns, CVC- initial and -C final. They were chosen, as they would appear to be especially problematic for the generalized template theory of reduplication developed within OT: neither CVC- nor -C is an unmarked syllable or unmarked metrical foot. The challenge for any analysis is to motivate why these shapes are unmarked. We propose that CVC- is a minimal root, and variations in t…
TAM-full object-verb order in the Mbam languages of Cameroon
Nen and Nyokon are unique among the Bantu languages in allowing full nominal objects between the tense/aspect marker and the verb. Despite the fact that the two languages are neighbours and related they make different use of this positional option. In Nen the position is the default one for objects and the post-verbal position renders an object discrete and suitable for quantified objects and for contrast. In Nyokon the position before the verb i…
The Middle in Cushitic Languages
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages (2001)
Valency and expectation in Bantu applicatives
Bantu applicatives are standardly analysed syntactically, as encoding a change in valency. However, in many cases applicatives do not change valency, but are rather related to a change in interpretation. In particular pragmatic functions of applicatives related to focus and emphasis are often noted in the description of individual languages, but are very rarely reflected in typological or theoretical work. To address this problem, this paper deve…
Engsh, a Kenyan middle class youth language parallel to Sheng
Youth ‘languages’ are an important topic of research in the domain of linguistic change through language contact because the change is rapid and observable and also because the social dimension of change is inevitably present. Engsh, as a youth language in Kenya expresses not only modernity and Kenyan identity but also, the status of being educated, and it differs in this respect from Sheng, the dominant Kenyan youth language. The element of Engs…
Language contact
Chapter 12 deals with language contact. Bantu languages are in contact with other Bantu languages and with languages of the Ubangi, Central Sudanic, Cushitic, Nilotic, Malagasy and various Khoisan families. Contact with non-Bantu languages is to various degrees and resulted in various outcomes; contact within Bantu needs to be established on the basis of careful use of reconstruction. Language contact can lead to radically different languages suc…
Using a discourse adverb to correct expectations an analysis of mak in Iraqw: An analysis of mak in Iraqw
The discourse verbal adverb mak was initially defined as both indicating stance and having the pragmatic function of hedging. In a further analysis using a corpus of Iraqw literature, this paper shows the function of the verbal adverb in Iraqw storytelling and proposes that mak is not related to stance. Instead, it was found that the verbal adverb acts at the discourse level highlighting an important aspect of a story, by organising contrasting i…
Verb-based restrictions on noun incorporation across languages
Although some characteristics of incorporating verbs and non-incorporating verbs have been proposed in previous studies, little systematic cross-linguistic research has been done on restrictions on the types of verbs that incorporate nouns. Knowledge about possible verb-based restrictions on noun incorporation may, however, provide important insights for theoretical approaches to noun incorporation, in particular regarding the question to what ex…
Konso
This chapter examines the Lowland East Cushitic language of the Afroasiatic phylum spoken in southwest Ethiopia: Konso. It emphasizes that the Konso call themselves Xonsitta and their language Afaa Xonso. The chapter also displays the four dialects of Konso: Faashe, Karatte, Tuuro, and Xolme. The Konso are organized in nine exogamous clans, each with their own chief. They are predominantly farmers who are known for their indigenous terracing syst…
Linguistics (17 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · African history and culture analysis (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)