Language and human experience
Mr. KABORE's talk will focus on Mòoré, the language of Burkina Faso, and more specifically on its verbal system.
♣ Presentation of a number of processes at work in the language.
♦ The canonical form of roots
♦ Ejection and substitution of the root vowel
♦ Vowel and consonant derivatives
♦ Symbolic value of certain consonants and processes
♦ Ease
♦ Granular
♦ Vowel lengthening and extensive value
♦ Centrifugal and centripetal
♦ diminutives, amplification, minimization
♦ Dense, compact, discrete in nominal and verbal lexical terms
♣ Internalization of human experience and journey through the labyrinth of forms and meanings.
A great many examples will be examined.
As an illustration (the set of terms each time derives from the same notion, the same root):
- prêter, palpiter, ressac
- lenteur, freshness, wet, heal, patience
- horn, (do something) until. . .
- slow down, small change - crush millet roughly, sparks, take a shortcut.
- ongle, essuyer, a certain kind of brotherhood relationship
ORGANIZATION
Delombera Negga (Plidam)
Ronny Meyer (Llacan)