PROCÉDÉS DE CRÉATION LEXICALE DANS TROIS LANGUES KWA DE CȎTE D’IVOIRE: ABRON – AGNI – BAOULÉ
METHODS OF LEXICAL CREATION IN THREE KWA LANGUAGES OF IVORY COAST: ABRON – AGNI - BAOULÉ

Summary/Abstract: There are many ways lexical creation is performed in native languages. The purpose of it is to cover speakers’ communicative needs when facing ‘foreign’ words. Therefore, depending on the phonological system (vowels, consonants and prosodic systems), in communication situation, foreign words are either systematically integrated into the basic lexicon of the borrowing language or brought to compete with new words created in the language. The most common ways lexical creation is processed are compounding, derivation (prefixation - suffixation), whose specific feature is ATR disharmony.

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