Morphologie verbale de la langue goo

Abstract

The article describes the verbal morphology of Goo (Southern Mande). Goo is spoken in the western part of Côte d’Ivoire. The number of speakers is presumably 7-8 thousands. The study was conducted during two field trips in Côte d’Ivoire. In Goo, verbal grammatical meanings are expressed both analitically and synthetically. Analitical means are copulas and predicative markers, inflection is represented by suffixation and tonal alternations. Aspectual meanings predominate with respect to temporal ones. Goo has verbal constructions for habitual, progressive, perfect, resultative, aorist, future, prospective, imperative, subjunctive, continuous, presumptive and two immediate constructions. Negative constructions are less numerous, often a negative construction corresponds to more than one affirmative.

Keywords

• Goo
• South Mande
• verbal morphology
• TAM system