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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Wolof"”.
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Clausal nominalization in Wolof
Wolof uses various strategies to express clausal nominalization i.e. genitive nominalization (GN), relative clause nominalization (RC nominalization) and headless relative clause nominalization. This dissertation provides a description of these nominalization processes with a special focus on GNs …
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The Syntax and Placement of Wolof Clitics
… there are two independent types of clitics in Wolof (XP and X0). Both clitic types are ordered due to a property of T0, and are further positioned due to requirements of the C-domain. This analysis of nominal and verbal clitics also addresses issues such as the status of sentence-initial …
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Nominal licensing: the syntactic distribution and number interpretation of bare nominals in Wolof
… licensing illustrated by bare nominals (BN) in Wolof: licensing of the BN itself and licensing at the level of its features. The former can be seen in the restrictions imposed on the syntactic positions a BN can occupy and the strategies employed to bypass them. The latter is reflected in the …
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The Myth of African Culture in Islam
… the cultural and traditional identities of Wolof and Murid communities in the Diaspora within the social collective, while at the same time examine the interplay between the Arab cultural influences of Islam in conjunction with African religious customs and practices through the historical …
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Mbalax: Cosmopolitanism in Senegalese Urban Popular Music
… on the practice of black, Muslim, and Wolof identities that Senegalese urban dance music articulates most consistently. The majority of my fieldwork was carried out in the nightclubs and neighborhoods in Dakar, the capital city. I performed with different mbalax groups and witnessed how …
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Echoes of Africa: Cosmological Continuities in Contemporary Bahamian Junkanoo
… traditions of the Yoruba, Akan, Mande, Igbo, Wolof, and Kongo, the research compares Junkanoo to African spiritual concepts such as a divine creative force and spirit interaction, exploring the cosmological role of music, costuming, timing, and collective participation in relation to these …