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Fula corrections #34

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xrotwang opened this issue Feb 2, 2015 · 1 comment
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Fula corrections #34

xrotwang opened this issue Feb 2, 2015 · 1 comment
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xrotwang commented Feb 2, 2015

One of the sources for many datapoints for Fulfulde (Adamawa) is Arnott (1970). However, Arnott (1970) actually deals with Fulfulde (Nigerian) not Fulfulde (Adamawa). What needs to be done, at least in the long run, is to move these from Fulfulde (Adamawa) to Fulfulde (Nigerian). This is not straightforward, however, since many of the datapoints for Fulfulde (Adamawa) are based both on Arnott and on one or more sources that are correctly sources for Fulfulde (Adamawa). What I suggest is that you leave all the datapoints in my chapters that use Arnott as a source where they are now, and wait until I next update my WALS chapters, which will “automatically” take care of this. However, for other people’s chapters, you will have to do something (though you might wait until I update my data). For other people’s chapters, these datapoints need to be moved to Fulfulde (Nigerian):

  • 36A Associative same as additive plural The Associative Plural Arnott 1970: 400; Labatut 1973: 62
  • 49A No morphological case-marking Number of Cases Arnott 1970: 139-148, App. 3
  • 50A No case-marking Asymmetrical Case-Marking Arnott 1970: 139-148, App. 3
  • 58A Absent Obligatory Possessive Inflection Arnott 1970
  • 58B None reported Number of Possessive Nouns Arnott 1970
  • 59A Two classes Possessive Classification Arnott 1970
  • 72A Maximal system Imperative-Hortative Systems Arnott 1970: 248-252, 300-302
  • 74A Affixes on verbs Situational Possibility Arnott 1970: 300
  • 75A Affixes on verbs Epistemic Possibility Arnott 1970: 274f.
  • 76A Overlap for either possibility or necessity Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking Arnott 1970: 302-304
  • 100A Accusative Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Arnott 1970: 183, 212
  • 102A Both the A and P arguments Verbal Person Marking Arnott 1970: 212
  • 103A No zero realization Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Arnott 1970: 212
  • 104A P precedes A Order of Person Markers on the Verb Arnott 1970: 212
  • 107A Present Passive Constructions Arnott 1970: 179
  • 125A Deranked Purpose Clauses Arnott 1970: 380
  • 126A Balanced/deranked 'When' Clauses Arnott 1970: 38, 320-1, 326
  • 127A Balanced Reason Clauses Arnott 1970: 38
  • 136A M-T pronouns, paradigmatic M-T Pronouns Arnott 1970
  • 136B m in first person singular M in First Person Singular Arnott 1970
  • 137A No N-M pronouns N-M Pronouns Arnott 1970
  • 137B m in second person singular M in Second Person Singular Arnott 1970

There is one complication and that is that chapter 36 uses
Arnott 1970: 400; Labatut 1973: 62
and Arnott is a source for Fulfulde (Nigerian) while Labatut is a source for Fulfulde (Adamawa). I suggest that this datapoint be moved to Fulfulde (Nigerian) and that Labatut simply be removed as a source.

Fifth, the WALS entry for Fulfulde (Nigerian) (=Fula (Nigerian)) at http://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_fni lists feature values for features 95A, 96A, and 97A, which is necessarily erroneous, since these three features are based on other features and this language is not coded for those other features. (However, once the data for Arnott is moved to Fulfulde (Nigerian), there WILL be data for these.) But this raises the question whether there might be other errors of this sort. If it's not too difficult, would it be possible for you to write a script to see whether there are any other languages with values for one or more of these three features, but no value for one or both of the features that feature is based on:

  • 95A is based on 83A and 85A
  • 96A is based on 83A and 90A
  • 97A is based on 83A and 87A
@xrotwang xrotwang transferred this issue from clld/wals-data Jan 14, 2020
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HedvigS commented Aug 28, 2020

(I feel your pain Robert.)

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