Universal quantifiers in Looma

Quantificateurs universels en looma

Кванторы со значением всеобщности в лоома

Daria Mishchenko (1)

1 LLACAN - Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire

The paper deals with morphosyntactic properties and semantics of universal quantifiers in Looma (South-Western Mande). It is shown that Looma quantifiers form quite a heterogeneous group whose members differ considerably in their be-havior. The analysis of the Looma data at semantic level demonstrates that the Looma universal quantifiers fit well with the typological tendency and that seman-tic map offered in typological works on quantification reflects correctly their dis-tribution. In the meantime, this map in its present form needs some elaborations, since it does not represent all the aspects of the differences between the quantifiers.

Keywords: Looma; universal quantifiers; negative polarity items

Domains: Linguistics

Daria Mishchenko. Кванторы со значением всеобщности в лоома. Languages of the Far East, South-Est Asia and West Africa: Transactions of the XIth International Conference (Saint-Petersburg, September 30 – October 02, 2014). Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, Institute of the Asian and African countries, Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, Institute of the Asian and African countries, Sep 2014, Saint-Pétersbourg, Russia. ⟨halshs-01112921⟩