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Article Dans Une Revue Mandenkan : Bulletin Semestriel d'Études Linguistiques Mandé Année : 2023

Directive and optative clauses in Manding languages

Denis Creissels

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This article discusses the structure of directive and optative clauses in Manding languages. The discussion mainly relies on a comparison between the two Manding languages for which detailed data on directive and optative clauses are available: Mandinka and Bambara. In Manding languages, the subjunctive plays a prominent role in the expression of commands and wishes, but speakers avoid expressing wishes by means of formulations exactly identical to those used for commands. Manding languages have a dedicated optative construction in which Álá ‘God’ is followed by a dedicated optative marker, but in Mandinka, the sequence ‘Álá + optative marker’ is freezing into an optative particle, as evidenced by the fact that Álá can be repeated as the subject of the clause following the optative marker.

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hal-04676629 , version 1 (23-08-2024)

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Denis Creissels. Directive and optative clauses in Manding languages. Mandenkan : Bulletin Semestriel d'Études Linguistiques Mandé, 2023, 69, pp.3-29. ⟨hal-04676629⟩
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