Alternations of emotions Verb-Noun roots in Wolof: analogy between verbs and nouns

Olivier Bondéelle (1)

1 MoDyCo - Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus

My proposal here is to explore the analogy between the verbal and nominal domains, which can contribute to describe the polysemy of the verb-noun roots. The paper contains four parts. In the first one, I give some basic morphological distinctions among verbs and nouns such as different derivations and also different flexional morphemes of the two parts of speech. In the second one, I describe the aspectual alternation of emotion verbs with the distinction between states and activities verbs. In the third one, I describe the countable alternation of emotion nouns with the distinction between mass and count nouns. And finally, the perspective of the fourth part is the analogy between state verbs and mass nouns.

Mots clés: sémantique; noms massifs; analogie; changement d'état; wolof; verbes d'état; émotions

Domaines: Linguistique; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Héritage culturel et muséologie

Olivier Bondéelle. Alternations of emotions Verb-Noun roots in Wolof: analogy between verbs and nouns. M. Brenzinger & A.-M. Fehn. Proceedings of the 6th African World Congress of African Linguistics, 5, Ruediger Koeppe Verlag, pp.371-381, 2012, World Congress of African Linguistics, 978-3-89645-199-6. ⟨hal-01253116⟩