Why eight causative suffixes in Wolof?

Prefixal 'suffixes' in Skou

Why Is The Identification of Causative Agent of Nocardiosis Essential at The Species Level?

[No Abstract] Nocardia is a genus of weakly gram-positive, filamentous, aerobic, relatively slow-growing and partially acid-fast bacteria. These bacteria are ubiquities in environmental resources such as water, soil, dust, decomposing animal feces, and vegetables. This group of bacteria can enter the human body through inhalation and traumatic cutaneous inoculation and cause Nocardia infection...

Valency Change and Complex Predicates in Wolof: an Lfg Account

This paper presents an LFG-based analysis of Wolof valency-changing suffixes found in applicative and causative constructions. The analysis addresses the particular issue of applicative-causative polysemy in this language. Similar to the work for Indonesian (Arka et al., 2009), I adopt an LFG-based predicate composition approach of complex predicate formation (Alsina, 1996; Butt, 1995), and ext...

Eight Reasons Why Doctors Fear the Elderly

Citizens 65 and over now account for at least 11% of the general population, or 25.5 million in the U.S. 1980census (Reisberg & Ferris, 1982). The very oldest are the fastest growing group, with the above-85 sector increasing at a rate 3 1/2 times greater than the general population (Dagon, 1982). The numbers of elderly over 100 in the United States are noted as between 40,000 and 100,000. In m...

Vers un analyseur syntaxique du wolof (Towards a syntactic analyzer of Wolof) [in French]

Mar Ndiaye, 1 Cherif Mbodj2 (1) Ecole supérieure de commerce Dakar, 7 av. Faidherbe BP21354 Dakar (2) Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar (UCAD) [email protected], [email protected] RESUME _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dans cet article nous présentons notre projet d’analyseur syntaxique du wolof, une langue parlée au Séné...