Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Ewe, Anglo (ewe) Alternative Names  Vhe, Gbe Family/Group  Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo Area  Africa General Data  • spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin • Benin variants are by some considered as a different language • one of two national languages in Togo • population total all countries: 3,112,400 • language of wider communication • 500,000 second-language speakers • vigorous; all domains Typological Information  • highly isolating language • tone language • no gender • serial verbs • monosyllabic morphemes • equal prefixing and suffixing • SVO Reduplication Form-Function  • word class derivation: adjectives, nouns, adverbs • word class derivation: adjectives (phonological reduction) • ideophones • lexicalized forms Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Reduplication System  • productive full reduplication • monosyllabic morphemes are more likely to become (fully) reduplicated than polysyllabic ones Productivity  • productive full reduplication • lexicalized forms • all ideophones are reduplicated forms Repetitive Operations  ŋútɔ́ "much" ŋútɔ́-ŋútɔ́ "very much" ŋútɔ́-ŋútɔ́-ŋútɔ́ "very, very much" Comments  The insertion of the Ewe data has highly profited from personal communication with Ulrike Claudi (University of Cologne). Forms  Select Valueσ σσ CV word   Functions  Select Valuelexical enrichment word class derivation Patterns  Select Valuefull Semantics  Select Valuenot decided other plurality   Word Classes  Select Value0 — other 0 — verb noun — adjective/adverb verb — adjective/adverb verb — noun   All Examples  ⊟ References Claudi, Ulrike 2009. gdr Questionnaire on Reduplication (Ewe). Ms.  Wellington Dzablu-Kumah, Simon, Ulrike Claudi 2006. Basic Ewe for Foreign Students. http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/down/publikationen/basic_ewe.pdf  Westermann, Diedrich 1905. Wörterbuch der Ewe-Sprache. 1. Teil: Ewe-Deutsch. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag     Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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