Language
Gungbe
Anaphoric markers
| Name | Description | Answerset | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | -ɖé strategy | argument pronoun-RM, where RM is a root that is not distinct for reflexive and reciprocal readings | Gungbe | Sections: Marker_shape(5),
Readings(4)
|
| 2 | Independent Pronoun (strong form) | Gungbe | Details | |
| 3 | Independent Pronoun (weak form) | Gungbe | Sections: Pronominal_properties(9)
| |
| 4 | Logophoric Pronoun | Logophoric pronoun | Gungbe | Sections: Marker_shape(7),
Readings(4)
|
| 5 | Possessive Pronoun | Gungbe | Details | |
| 6 | wú | bare complement interpreted reflexively | Gungbe | Sections: Marker_shape(3),
Readings(1)
|
| 7 | wú + ɖé strategy | inherent complement + pronoun-RM | Gungbe | Sections: Marker_shape(13),
Readings(3)
|
Example Sentences
There are 441 example sentences.
Language Properties
Some syntactic properties of the language
Word order
| Split word order SOV-SVO |
General information about the language
ISO code (ISO 639-3), aka Ethnologue code
| GUW |
Language name
| Gungbe |
Genetic classification (Ethnologue)
| Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Kwa, Left Bank, Gbe |
Language group (Ethnologue top level)
| Niger-Congo |
Language consultant information
Consultant name
| Enoch Oladé Aboh |
Gender of consultant
| male |
Occupation
| Professor, University of Amsterdam |
Level of education
| Ph.D. |
Language biography
| The languages in the consultant's home were Gungbe, Gengbe, although he grew up from age 6-13 in a Fon speaking area. These languages belong to the Gbe family with various degrees of mutual intelligibility. His primary school was exclusively francophone and he acquired English and later Spanish as secondary languages. |
Learned language at age
| Mother tongue |
Familiarity with the language
| native speaker |
Formal knowledge of the grammar
| specialized knowledge, e.g., as language teacher or linguist |
Who participated in the elicitation?
| Enoch Oladé Aboh and Ken Safir using the Anaphora Questionnaire. |
Status of data in database
Is the information for the sentences entered complete?
| Data for entered sentences is complete |
Is the data for markers in this language complete?
| Data for markers incomplete | |
| Comments | A review of the data for the analytic entities would be useful because this data was collected in the early years of the project. |
Is the sentence data likely to change soon?
| No new sentence data will be entered in the near future |