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DES CLASSIFICATIONS DE L’EAU AU SÉNÉGAL ET IMAGINAIRES : PREMIÈRES DONNÉES D’UNE RECHERCHE EXPLORATOIRE EN LANGUE WOLOF

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natural language processing
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MamMon
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Uni
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Abstract: This article is guided by the following question: How is water conceptualised by Wolof speakers in Senegal? In the analysis of our corpus, we detected four structurally different ways of classifying or differentiating types of water in Wolof: a) different lexemes, b) genitive construction in Wolof, c) relative construction in which the head ndox (water) is linked to a verb by the mu form, formally composed of the classifier of ndox, m- and a linker expressing the relative, -u, and d) qualifying water by placing it as the subject of a verbal phrase. In what follows, we will justify the inclusion of each type, give examples of each classification, explain the use (regarding our corpus) and also discussthe underlying imaginaries. Keywords: Wolof, structural linguistics, Senegal, water, imaginaries

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