Torben Andersen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 288245 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Torben Andersen |
| PRENOMES | Torben |
| SOBRENOME | Andersen |
| ASSINATURA | ANDERSEN T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7125-7992 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Morphology of intransitive verbs in the Agar dialect of Dinka
This article describes the morphology of intransitive verbs in the Agar dialect of Dinka, a Western Nilotic language which exhibits an extreme degree of non-concatenative morphology. Intransitive verbs comprise three groups: verbs that are clearly simple, i.e. underived, verbs that are clearly derived, and verbs whose derivational status seems indeterminable synchronically. The basic form of an intransitive verb (and other verbs), whether simple …
The View From the Other Side of the Table
Participatory research practices are increasingly being initiated between patients, caregivers, and researchers in traditional health research. We focus on the integration of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in health research in a setting where PPIE has become a strategic aim and examine institutional structures through the experience of patients and relatives invited into PPIE activities. Despite the increasing emphasis on P…
Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research - An institutional ethnography
Focus on patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is increasing in health policy and research governance. PPIE is considered by some to be a democratic right, and by others to be a way to improve health care and research outcomes and implementation. Most recently, policy makers, funders and (clinical) research institutions are making PPIE a strategic requirement for health research urging researchers to invite patients and relatives i…
Berta
This chapter is a description of Berta, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Benishangul-Gumuz Region. The description is based on the Mayu dialect. Berta is a tone language with tones having both lexical and grammatical functions. There are two major word classes, nouns and verbs, while adjectival concepts are expressed by verbs. Nouns are inflected for number, state and case, and verbs are inflected for mood and tense, and they may be marked as be…
A binary inflectional voice contrast in Mabaan (Western Nilotic)
In Mabaan, a Western Nilotic language, there is a binary inflectional voice contrast in the morphology of verbs. In addition to a morphologically unmarked basic voice, there is a fully productive applicative voice, which is morphologically marked. This applicative voice may be called circumstantial in order to distinguish it from another applicative voice, which is derivational, namely benefactive. The circumstantial voice turns an adjunct into a…
Subject and Topic in Dinka
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Anti-Logophoricity and Indirect Mode in Mabaan
In Mabaan, a Western Nilotic language, indirect speech is characterised by the following three features. Firstly, verbs are inflected in a special way, having an indirect mode as opposed to the direct mode of direct speech. Secondly, in pronominal morphemes a distinction is made between forms that refer to a third person reported speaker (third person forms) and forms which have other third person referents (fourth person forms), a distinction wh…
Syntacticized topics in Kurmuk
This article argues that Kurmuk, a little-described Western Nilotic language, is characterized by a syntacticized topic whose grammatical relation is variable. In this language, declarative clauses have as topic an obligatory preverbal NP which is either a subject, an object, or an adjunct. The grammatical relation of the topic is expressed by a voice-like inflection of the verb, called orientation here. While subject-orientation is morphological…
Clause-internal antitopics in Berta, a Nilo-Saharan verb-second language
This article deals with clausal constituent order and dislocation constructions in Berta, a Nilo-Saharan language with indicative clauses being verb-second. The preverbal slot is occupied by either an unmarked NP which may have any or no grammatical relation to the verb, a focus constituent, or a particular function word. This slot may be empty, but in that case it implies a zero third person referent. In addition to left-dislocated NPs, which ar…
Multiple adnominal modification in Dinka
In Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, most adnominal modifiers follow the head noun. Before most of these modifiers, the head noun is in one of two construct states. One construct state, CS1, occurs before, among others, demonstratives, nominal possessors and relative clauses as CS1-modifiers. The other construct state, CS2, which is morphologically more complex, occurs before, among others, possessive pronouns, a few numerals and a diminutivizer…
External possession of body-part nouns in Dinka
In Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, body-part nouns may be externally possessed. External possession is possible and the default option if the body-part noun is semantically part of a transitive object, an unaccusative subject, or a copula subject. With transitive and ditransitive verbs, the external possessor is object, and with intransitive and copulative verbs, it is subject. Externally possessed body-part nouns have no grammatical relation …
The encoding of subjects and objects in Jumjum, a Nilotic OV language
Case inflection of construct-state constructions in Dinka
Dinka, a Nilo-Saharan language, is largely monosyllabic, nevertheless it has a fairly rich morphology. Thus, most of its morphology is expressed by alternations in phonological material of the root. The inflectional categories of nouns manifested in this way include state and case in addition to number. The state category consists of an "absolute" state and two "construct" states. The case category includes a nominative, a genitive, an allative, …
Spatial roles and verbal directionality in Dinka
This article deals with the interaction between two subsystems of the grammar of Dinka, a Western Nilotic language: (i) the semantic role of a place adverbial as location, source or goal, and (ii) deictic directionality expressed in the verb. Some place adverbials do not encode the distinction between the three spatial roles, but some nouns and some complex noun phrases distinguish between an allative case, which encodes a goal, and an essive/abl…
Auxiliary verbs in Dinka
Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, has a class of auxiliary verbs which is remarkable in the following four respects: (i) It is unusually large, comprising some 20 members; (ii) it is grammatically homogeneous in terms of both morphology and syntax; (iii) most of the auxiliary verbs correspond to adverbs in languages like English, while the rest are tense-aspect markers; and (iv) it is possible to combine several auxiliary verbs in a single claus…
Kurmuk phonology
This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Kurmuk, a previously undescribed language belonging to the Northern Burun subbranch of the Western Nilotic family. After a morpho syntactic overview, the treatment of the phonology includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel alternation, consonants and consonant alternation, and tones and tonal processes
[ATR] reversal in Jumjum
Jumjum, a Western Nilotic language, has an eight-vowel system divided into two sets by the feature [ATR] (Advanced Tongue Root), which is the basis of vowel harmony. A comparison with other Western Nilotic languages shows that (i) this vowel system goes back to a ten-vowel system in Proto-Western Nilotic (PWN), (ii) PWN high [−ATR] vowels have become high [+ATR] vowels in Jumjum, and (iii) conversely, PWN high [+ATR] vowels have become high [−ATR…
Jumjum phonology
This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Jumjum, a littleknown Western Nilotic language. The treatment includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel harmony, consonants and consonant assimilation, and tones and tonal processes
Vowel quality alternation in Mabaan and its Western Nilotic history
Mabaan differs from other Western Nilotic languages by not using anything like the feature [ATR] or [breathy] in the overall organisation of its vowel system. On the other hand, however, Mabaan is similar to many other Western Nilotic languages in using vowel alternation in the derivational morphology of verbal roots. In the latter languages this alternation is based on one of the above-mentioned features, but in Mabaan it involves diphthongizati…
Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u]. However, the mid [+ATR] vowels [e] and [o] are variants of the mid [-ATR] vowels /e/ and /i/ conditioned by a following high I+ATR] vowel. This allophony is the effect of one of four general vowel harmony processes. In addition, [-ATR) …
Vowel quality alternation in Dinka verb inflection
Dinka, a major Western Nilotic language spoken in the Sudan, is to a large extent a monosyllabic language. Nevertheless, it has a complex morphology. Thus a significant part of its morphology is non-affixal, being manifested by way of morphophonological alternations in the root. Such alternations involve one or more of the following parameters: vowel quality, vowel length, voice quality, tone and final consonant. While alternations in vowel lengt…
Verbal roots and verbal inflection in Berta∗
Morpological stratification in Dinka
Dinka is a Western Nilotic language with three contrastive degrees of vowel length, two contrastive voice qualities in vowels, and three contrastive tones. Although to a large extent a monosyllabic language, Dinka has an elaborate morphology. In monosyllabic words the morphology is manifested solely by alternations among values of a number of phonological parameters of the root, including, among others, vowel length, voice quality, and tone. In t…
The Päri Vowel System with an Internal Reconstruction of Its Historical Development
Article The Päri Vowel System with an Internal Reconstruction of Its Historical Development was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (volume 11, issue 1
Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language
Pari, a Western Nilotic language, has a terraced-level tone system with total downstep. Although Pari could be analyzed as having three basic tone levels and automatic downstep, there is morphological evidence that it has two basic tone levels and non-automatic downstep. Furthermore, there is evidence that downstep is the manifestation of a floating high tone. Floating tones thus behave differently from tones of deleted vowels. In spite of many s…
Ergativity in Pari, a nilotic OVS language
Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research - An institutional ethnography
Focus on patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is increasing in health policy and research governance. PPIE is considered by some to be a democratic right, and by others to be a way to improve health care and research outcomes and implementation. Most recently, policy makers, funders and (clinical) research institutions are making PPIE a strategic requirement for health research urging researchers to invite patients and relatives i…
Case inflection of construct-state constructions in Dinka
Dinka, a Nilo-Saharan language, is largely monosyllabic, nevertheless it has a fairly rich morphology. Thus, most of its morphology is expressed by alternations in phonological material of the root. The inflectional categories of nouns manifested in this way include state and case in addition to number. The state category consists of an "absolute" state and two "construct" states. The case category includes a nominative, a genitive, an allative, …
Spatial roles and verbal directionality in Dinka
This article deals with the interaction between two subsystems of the grammar of Dinka, a Western Nilotic language: (i) the semantic role of a place adverbial as location, source or goal, and (ii) deictic directionality expressed in the verb. Some place adverbials do not encode the distinction between the three spatial roles, but some nouns and some complex noun phrases distinguish between an allative case, which encodes a goal, and an essive/abl…
Jumjum phonology
This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Jumjum, a littleknown Western Nilotic language. The treatment includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel harmony, consonants and consonant assimilation, and tones and tonal processes
Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u]. However, the mid [+ATR] vowels [e] and [o] are variants of the mid [-ATR] vowels /e/ and /i/ conditioned by a following high I+ATR] vowel. This allophony is the effect of one of four general vowel harmony processes. In addition, [-ATR) …
Morpological stratification in Dinka
Dinka is a Western Nilotic language with three contrastive degrees of vowel length, two contrastive voice qualities in vowels, and three contrastive tones. Although to a large extent a monosyllabic language, Dinka has an elaborate morphology. In monosyllabic words the morphology is manifested solely by alternations among values of a number of phonological parameters of the root, including, among others, vowel length, voice quality, and tone. In t…
An outline of Lulubo phonology
This article outlines the phonology of Lulubo, a little known Central Sudanic language spoken in the southern Sudan. An account is given of the phonemic inventory (vowels, consonants, and tones), vowel harmony, syllable structure, special features of ideophones, and vowel elision
Kurmuk phonology
This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Kurmuk, a previously undescribed language belonging to the Northern Burun subbranch of the Western Nilotic family. After a morpho syntactic overview, the treatment of the phonology includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel alternation, consonants and consonant alternation, and tones and tonal processes
The Päri Vowel System with an Internal Reconstruction of Its Historical Development
Article The Päri Vowel System with an Internal Reconstruction of Its Historical Development was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (volume 11, issue 1
Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language
Pari, a Western Nilotic language, has a terraced-level tone system with total downstep. Although Pari could be analyzed as having three basic tone levels and automatic downstep, there is morphological evidence that it has two basic tone levels and non-automatic downstep. Furthermore, there is evidence that downstep is the manifestation of a floating high tone. Floating tones thus behave differently from tones of deleted vowels. In spite of many s…
Tone splitting and vowel quality evidence from Lugbara
In recent surveys of tonal phenomena it is suggested that vowel quality rarely affects tone. In the present paper it is argued that one such case can be found in Lugbara. Internal and comparative evidence is presented that the vowel feature Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) has had an initiating role in tone splitting in Western Lugbara. It is demonstrated tha.t the pitch of a vowel with a high tone was raised if the vowel was [+ATR], and it is suggeste…
Syntactic valency and contextual specialization
In Johnson's Standard Swahili-English dictionary (1939) the meaning of the verb-Shika is described as follows:hold fast, take hold of, keep hold on, seize, grasp, keep. A common word with a wide range of application, e.g. (1) get hold on, press hard on, be on the mind, put in difficulties; (2) keep a hold on, persevere in; (3) hold to, keep to, observe, remember, attend to, obey; (4) determine, resolve, make up the mind to; (5) also as Intrans. h…
An outline of Lulubo phonology
This article outlines the phonology of Lulubo, a little known Central Sudanic language spoken in the southern Sudan. An account is given of the phonemic inventory (vowels, consonants, and tones), vowel harmony, syllable structure, special features of ideophones, and vowel elision
Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language
Pari, a Western Nilotic language, has a terraced-level tone system with total downstep. Although Pari could be analyzed as having three basic tone levels and automatic downstep, there is morphological evidence that it has two basic tone levels and non-automatic downstep. Furthermore, there is evidence that downstep is the manifestation of a floating high tone. Floating tones thus behave differently from tones of deleted vowels. In spite of many s…
Ergativity in Pari, a nilotic OVS language
The Päri Vowel System with an Internal Reconstruction of Its Historical Development
Article The Päri Vowel System with an Internal Reconstruction of Its Historical Development was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (volume 11, issue 1
Morpological stratification in Dinka
Dinka is a Western Nilotic language with three contrastive degrees of vowel length, two contrastive voice qualities in vowels, and three contrastive tones. Although to a large extent a monosyllabic language, Dinka has an elaborate morphology. In monosyllabic words the morphology is manifested solely by alternations among values of a number of phonological parameters of the root, including, among others, vowel length, voice quality, and tone. In t…
Vowel quality alternation in Dinka verb inflection
Dinka, a major Western Nilotic language spoken in the Sudan, is to a large extent a monosyllabic language. Nevertheless, it has a complex morphology. Thus a significant part of its morphology is non-affixal, being manifested by way of morphophonological alternations in the root. Such alternations involve one or more of the following parameters: vowel quality, vowel length, voice quality, tone and final consonant. While alternations in vowel lengt…
Verbal roots and verbal inflection in Berta∗
Vowel quality alternation in Mabaan and its Western Nilotic history
Mabaan differs from other Western Nilotic languages by not using anything like the feature [ATR] or [breathy] in the overall organisation of its vowel system. On the other hand, however, Mabaan is similar to many other Western Nilotic languages in using vowel alternation in the derivational morphology of verbal roots. In the latter languages this alternation is based on one of the above-mentioned features, but in Mabaan it involves diphthongizati…
Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u]. However, the mid [+ATR] vowels [e] and [o] are variants of the mid [-ATR] vowels /e/ and /i/ conditioned by a following high I+ATR] vowel. This allophony is the effect of one of four general vowel harmony processes. In addition, [-ATR) …
Jumjum phonology
This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Jumjum, a littleknown Western Nilotic language. The treatment includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel harmony, consonants and consonant assimilation, and tones and tonal processes
[ATR] reversal in Jumjum
Jumjum, a Western Nilotic language, has an eight-vowel system divided into two sets by the feature [ATR] (Advanced Tongue Root), which is the basis of vowel harmony. A comparison with other Western Nilotic languages shows that (i) this vowel system goes back to a ten-vowel system in Proto-Western Nilotic (PWN), (ii) PWN high [−ATR] vowels have become high [+ATR] vowels in Jumjum, and (iii) conversely, PWN high [+ATR] vowels have become high [−ATR…
Auxiliary verbs in Dinka
Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, has a class of auxiliary verbs which is remarkable in the following four respects: (i) It is unusually large, comprising some 20 members; (ii) it is grammatically homogeneous in terms of both morphology and syntax; (iii) most of the auxiliary verbs correspond to adverbs in languages like English, while the rest are tense-aspect markers; and (iv) it is possible to combine several auxiliary verbs in a single claus…
Kurmuk phonology
This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Kurmuk, a previously undescribed language belonging to the Northern Burun subbranch of the Western Nilotic family. After a morpho syntactic overview, the treatment of the phonology includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel alternation, consonants and consonant alternation, and tones and tonal processes
Spatial roles and verbal directionality in Dinka
This article deals with the interaction between two subsystems of the grammar of Dinka, a Western Nilotic language: (i) the semantic role of a place adverbial as location, source or goal, and (ii) deictic directionality expressed in the verb. Some place adverbials do not encode the distinction between the three spatial roles, but some nouns and some complex noun phrases distinguish between an allative case, which encodes a goal, and an essive/abl…
Case inflection of construct-state constructions in Dinka
Dinka, a Nilo-Saharan language, is largely monosyllabic, nevertheless it has a fairly rich morphology. Thus, most of its morphology is expressed by alternations in phonological material of the root. The inflectional categories of nouns manifested in this way include state and case in addition to number. The state category consists of an "absolute" state and two "construct" states. The case category includes a nominative, a genitive, an allative, …
The encoding of subjects and objects in Jumjum, a Nilotic OV language
External possession of body-part nouns in Dinka
In Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, body-part nouns may be externally possessed. External possession is possible and the default option if the body-part noun is semantically part of a transitive object, an unaccusative subject, or a copula subject. With transitive and ditransitive verbs, the external possessor is object, and with intransitive and copulative verbs, it is subject. Externally possessed body-part nouns have no grammatical relation …
Multiple adnominal modification in Dinka
In Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, most adnominal modifiers follow the head noun. Before most of these modifiers, the head noun is in one of two construct states. One construct state, CS1, occurs before, among others, demonstratives, nominal possessors and relative clauses as CS1-modifiers. The other construct state, CS2, which is morphologically more complex, occurs before, among others, possessive pronouns, a few numerals and a diminutivizer…
Subject and Topic in Dinka
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Anti-Logophoricity and Indirect Mode in Mabaan
In Mabaan, a Western Nilotic language, indirect speech is characterised by the following three features. Firstly, verbs are inflected in a special way, having an indirect mode as opposed to the direct mode of direct speech. Secondly, in pronominal morphemes a distinction is made between forms that refer to a third person reported speaker (third person forms) and forms which have other third person referents (fourth person forms), a distinction wh…
Syntacticized topics in Kurmuk
This article argues that Kurmuk, a little-described Western Nilotic language, is characterized by a syntacticized topic whose grammatical relation is variable. In this language, declarative clauses have as topic an obligatory preverbal NP which is either a subject, an object, or an adjunct. The grammatical relation of the topic is expressed by a voice-like inflection of the verb, called orientation here. While subject-orientation is morphological…
Clause-internal antitopics in Berta, a Nilo-Saharan verb-second language
This article deals with clausal constituent order and dislocation constructions in Berta, a Nilo-Saharan language with indicative clauses being verb-second. The preverbal slot is occupied by either an unmarked NP which may have any or no grammatical relation to the verb, a focus constituent, or a particular function word. This slot may be empty, but in that case it implies a zero third person referent. In addition to left-dislocated NPs, which ar…
Berta
This chapter is a description of Berta, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Benishangul-Gumuz Region. The description is based on the Mayu dialect. Berta is a tone language with tones having both lexical and grammatical functions. There are two major word classes, nouns and verbs, while adjectival concepts are expressed by verbs. Nouns are inflected for number, state and case, and verbs are inflected for mood and tense, and they may be marked as be…
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