Natalia Kuznetsova - Elements of Guro Grammar
Elements of Guro Grammar
Phonology and morphology. Non-verbal lexical classes. Determination, deixis, information structure
Natalia Kuznetsova
Description
This work summarises my ongoing research on the Guro language spoken in Côte d’Ivoire, in West Africa (see especially N. Kuznetsova & O. Kuznetsova 2017). The core part of the data used for this study was collected by Olga Kuznetsova and myself during fieldwork in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in 2005-2008 (elicitation), with several additions collected in the field by Olga Kuznetsova between 2010 and 2019 (spontaneous texts and elicitation), and by myself online in 2016 and 2021 (elicitation). A substantial part of the lexical data was published in the Guro-French dictionary (O. Kuznetsova & N. Kuznetsova 2021). Additional recent data comes from a glossed corpus of spoken Guro narratives (O. Kuznetsova 2022; fairy tales), cf. 12.4 for details on the indication of data sources.