Amina Mettouchi
Please see my page for up-to-date info and publications (with PDFs) : http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/pers/mettouchi/
I am Professor of Berber Linguistics, and my research is in the domains of semantics, syntax, prosody, and pragmatics (information structure). My main research topics are :
- Aspect, mood, negation and reference in Berber
- The interaction between prosody, information structure and syntax in Kabyle
- The role of corpora in cross-linguistic research
- Grammaticalization and comparative Berber morphosyntax.
- Language documentation and endangered Berber languages
My comparative work within Berber involves mainly Kabyle, Tarighit (Oued Righ Berber), Tumzabt, Taggargrent, Siwi, Ghadamsi, Tashawit (Shawiya), Tashelhiyt (Shilha), Tamazight (Middle Atlas Berber), Tahaggart and Tamashek.
I work on spontaneous spoken data, and am interested in all linguistic aspects of oral production. I initiated a corpus project for Berber languages, I have coordinated one on spoken Afroasiatic languages (CorpAfroAs: http://corpafroas.huma-num.fr/) (2006-2011), and another one (2013-2017) on spoken corpora in lesser-described languages and cross-linguistic comparability (CorTypo: http://cortypo.huma-num.fr/), both funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
I have been doing fieldwork on Kabyle for twenty years, and in 2012 I have started the analysis and documentation of an endangered Berber language, Tarighit, spoken in the region of Oued Righ (Touggourt) in Algeria.
My personal website is on : http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/pers/mettouchi/
And you can find more biographical details in French on: https://prosopo.ephe.fr/amina-mettouchi
Address: LLACAN, UMR 8135 du CNRS
7, rue Guy Môquet – BP 8
94801 VILLEJUIF
France
I am Professor of Berber Linguistics, and my research is in the domains of semantics, syntax, prosody, and pragmatics (information structure). My main research topics are :
- Aspect, mood, negation and reference in Berber
- The interaction between prosody, information structure and syntax in Kabyle
- The role of corpora in cross-linguistic research
- Grammaticalization and comparative Berber morphosyntax.
- Language documentation and endangered Berber languages
My comparative work within Berber involves mainly Kabyle, Tarighit (Oued Righ Berber), Tumzabt, Taggargrent, Siwi, Ghadamsi, Tashawit (Shawiya), Tashelhiyt (Shilha), Tamazight (Middle Atlas Berber), Tahaggart and Tamashek.
I work on spontaneous spoken data, and am interested in all linguistic aspects of oral production. I initiated a corpus project for Berber languages, I have coordinated one on spoken Afroasiatic languages (CorpAfroAs: http://corpafroas.huma-num.fr/) (2006-2011), and another one (2013-2017) on spoken corpora in lesser-described languages and cross-linguistic comparability (CorTypo: http://cortypo.huma-num.fr/), both funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
I have been doing fieldwork on Kabyle for twenty years, and in 2012 I have started the analysis and documentation of an endangered Berber language, Tarighit, spoken in the region of Oued Righ (Touggourt) in Algeria.
My personal website is on : http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/pers/mettouchi/
And you can find more biographical details in French on: https://prosopo.ephe.fr/amina-mettouchi
Address: LLACAN, UMR 8135 du CNRS
7, rue Guy Môquet – BP 8
94801 VILLEJUIF
France
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Berber languages are pronominal-argument languages, in the sense of Jelinek (1984): their verbs (and other non-verbal predicates) bear bound pronouns with argumental (as opposed to agreement) status. Noun phrases are not obligatory, and their ordering is not fixed. As argumental pronouns are obligatorily affixed or cliticized to verbs, Berber languages can also be characterized as head-marking, in the sense of Nichols (1986). On the other hand, some Berber languages (e.g. Kabyle (Northern Berber, Algeria)) have inflectional marking on nouns, called state (cf. Mettouchi & Frajzyngier 2013), while others (e.g. Siwi (Eastern Berber, Egypt)) don't. Kabyle should therefore be characterized as double-marking, whereas Siwi is simply head-marking.
The purpose of this presentation is to distinguish what is ascribable to head-marking, and what to double-marking, in two closely-related pronominal argument languages with very similar morphology and lexicon, thus contributing to the general question of the workshop, namely whether head-marking languages have any distinctive information structural properties that are a function of, or related to, their head- marking morphosyntax.