Corentin Bourdeau
List of John Benjamins publications in which Corentin Bourdeau is involved.
Articles
2024 When words sail through the desert: The Songhay layer in Wolof Linguistics in the Netherlands 2024, Bril, Marco and Kristel Doreleijers (eds.), pp. 133–150 | Article
Wolof is generally classified as a North-Atlantic language within the Niger-Congo phylum. However, despite a considerable number of cognates (Merrill 2021b), this classification is more of a working hypothesis than a demonstrated fact. Linguists such as Wilson (1989) and Lüpke (2020) consider… read more
2023 The contact-based emergence of the subject-focus construction in Wolof: A dynamic perspective Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 4–22 | Article
In this article, we focus on the origin of the Wolof subject-focus construction (SFC) from a dynamic perspective. In Wolof, argument focus is expressed morpho-syntactically by means of copulaless cleft constructions consisting of the juxtaposition of the focus and a free relative clause. The… read more