User:Mark Dingemanse/todo

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[edit] To do

[edit] African languages and linguistics

[edit] Project Senufo languages
  • See Talk:Senufo languages for to do list
  • Shempire language (Syempire)
  • Senari languages
  • Senara language
  • Nyarafolo language
  • Tagwana-Djimini languages
    • Tagwana language (Tagouna)
    • Djimini language
[edit] Project African language families
[edit] Misc African languages


[edit] Linguistics

[edit] General linguistic topics
  • Serial verb construction — stub created, but could use a lot more work. Would verb serializing be a better name?
  • Depressor consonant — to create
  • Ideophone — jay! made a start; still needs work, see its to do list.
  • Conjoint and disjoint verb forms — Meeussen, Creissels, Edenmyr / write it
  • Achille Emile Meeussen (1912-1978 influential Bantuist)
  • Focus (linguistics) (unbelievable this doesn't exist; Focus is a dab)
  • Wh-question — This is an important topic in syntax. Should it exist, or can Question cover the topic?
  • Causative — needs cleanup, but also a more linguistic approach. Add some cognitive semantic views.
  • Location or Location (linguistics). At present, there is no decent article about the way languages deal with location and space.
  • Speech organs or Articulatory phonetics — add image of speech organs.
  • Question — add examples of various question marking strategies (tonal, morphological, syntactical (word order), etc.)
  • Function word   not only LPOV, but contains also some grave errors. Calls interjections function words after defining function words as having little meaning and mainly signifying grammatical relationships!
[edit] Semantic topics
  • Cognitive Grammar (Langacker etc.)
  • Cognitive linguistics ((in)compatibility with Generative linguistics; the two don't have to be opposites - Jackendoff)
  • Cognitive semantics (Talmy, Lakoff, etc.)
  • Conceptual Semantics (criticism, limits)
  • Experiential realism (Lakoff & Johnson)
  • Figure and Ground
  • Language of thought (more info about the book, its point of view, its context, and its implications)
  • Lexical Conceptual Structure (put forward by Jackendoff 1983, LCS is used by others as well.)
  • Meaning postulate
  • Markerese
  • Mentalist Postulate
  • NSM
  • Semantics - presently more like a stub combined with a link dump.
  • The cat is on the mat — famous sample sentence. Fodor 1975, Putnam, Lakoff 1987:249-252,293-295.
  • Women, fire, and dangerous things
[edit] LPOV

Linguistic topics that suffer from a limited (usually Indo-European) point of view. I haven't been searching purposefully for articles showing this problem. This list consists just of articles I came across accidentally.

(list moved to CSB Open Tasks#Linguistics)


[edit] Misc

[edit] Languages of X

African countries usually accommodate an enormous wealth of indigenous languages. For that reason, almost all of the red links below should definitely become blue. Several things are to be done. One of the most important things, besides the actual writing of the articles, is creating a context for them in the country articles, the Demography of X articles, and in the relevant categories. The countrybox might be another place to think about (I've always hated the way it says "Languages: English, French, and indigenous languages" — as if those scary indigenous speech varieties are one amorphous mass of incomprehensible —worse, primitive— languages). And another thing: ideally, all of those should be paired with comprehensive 'Ethnic groups of X' articles. I better look out for some collaboration on this one...

[edit] Languages of Kenya

[edit] Languages of Mali