Language
Joola-Eegimaa
Anaphoric markers
| Name | Description | Answerset | ||
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| 1 | Independent Pronoun | Joola-Eegimaa | Sections: Marker_shape(2)
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| 2 | IRF | Joola-Eegimaa | Sections: Marker_shape(6)
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| 3 | RCM | Joola-Eegimaa | Sections: Marker_shape(9),
Readings(4)
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| 4 | RFM | Joola-Eegimaa | Sections: Marker_shape(2),
Readings(6)
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Example Sentences
There are 866 example sentences.
Language Properties
Some syntactic properties of the language
Word order
| Consistently SVO |
General information about the language
Language name
| Joola-Eegimaa |
Genetic classification (Ethnologue)
| Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Atlantic, Northern, Bak, Jola, Jola Proper, Jola Central, Gusilay |
Language group (Ethnologue top level)
| Niger-Congo |
Language consultant information
Consultant name
| Mamadou Bassene |
Gender of consultant
| male |
Occupation
| Post-Doctorate |
Level of education
| PhD in Linguistics |
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?
| Mamadou Bassene and Ken Safir using the Anaphora Questionnaire and the Clausal Complementation Questionnaire. Mark Baker participated in several in person sessions with Bassene and Safir. as did Naga Selvanathan. Mark Baker also had some in person elicitation sessions with Mamadou Bassene only. |
Status of data in database
Is the information for the sentences entered complete?
| Data for entered sentences is complete | |
| Comments | There may be some changes in the properties ascribed to sentences, but glosses and translations are stable. |
Is the data for markers in this language complete?
| Data for markers incomplete | |
| Comments | This may change, but not soon. |
Is the sentence data likely to change soon?
| No new sentence data will be entered in the near future |