Les relatives possessives en mbochi (C25)
Jean-Marc Beltzung, Annie Rialland & Martial Embanga Aborobongui
Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie
UMR 7018 (CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle)
"This paper deals with the possessive constructions — either connective or relative — in
Mbochi (C25), a Bantu language spoken in Congo-Brazzaville. In Mbochi, as in most languages
of the same group (C20), the underlying /CV-/ form of nominal prefixes never surfaces
as such but is targeted by two main processes: consonantal dissimilation and vowel
elision. Both processes are in complementary distribution and the alternations triggered
by them may explain the surface forms of both connective and relative constructions.
In order to provide the necessary background for the study of Mbochi relative clauses,
the three subject markers of Mbochi are introduced and the main verbal suffixes are also
discussed. Thereafter, a detailed presentation and analysis of the relative constructions
is given. Finally, we discuss the prosody of these constructions, showing that relative
clauses in Mbochi have no particular tonal markers and we propose a model involving
superimposed boundary tones to account for their intonation."
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