XXXI Международный конгресс ИИСАА. 23–25 июня 2021 г. Т. 2

10 XXXI Международный Конгресс по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки Секция XIII other cases, the type of declension / conjugation of a word cannot be deduced from its form, and must be memorized. This concerns both segment and tonal paradigms. In Mwan, as in most Mande languages, segmental inflection is characteristic only for verbs; most suffixes are attached agglutinatively, but there are also elements of fusion. In verbal inflection, three paradigmatic classes can be distinguished, belonging to which is defined by the stem type. Mwan verbs are subdivided into three classes by stem type: 1) light foot of the CV type; 2) heavy foot, types CVV, CvLV; 3) disyl- labic verbs with the suffix -Là. Other content words (nouns, adjectives, adverbs) do not change and do not have segmental paradigmatic classes. However, in addition to the segment paradigms presented, in Mwan, content words display unequal tonal behavior in identical contexts. Thus, tonal paradigms stand out. However, belonging to a particular class cannot be defined by the original form of the word. The verb has 2 tonal classes, depending on the change of tone according to the tone of the previous word inside the same VP: 1) constant paradigm: the tone of the verb does not change; 2) mobile paradigm: the tones of the verb change according to a certain pattern. The belonging to a particular tonal paradigm does not correlate with any other characteristics of the verb (transitivity, semantics, etc.). Nouns (and postpositions which are subclass of nouns), adjectives and adverbs have three tonal paradigms, singled out on the basis of the dependence of the tone of a word on the tone of the previous NP member: 1) constant paradigm: the tone of the word does not change; 2) coordinative: the tone of the word copies the tone of the previous word; 3) mobile paradigm: the tone of the word changes according to the same pattern as the corresponding class of verbs. The belonging of a word to a particular paradigmatic class is rather arbitrary, although there is a certain tendency for relational nouns and postpositions to change according to the mobile paradigm, which indicates their greater fusion with the first member of the NP. Rinkanya Alina (University of Nairobi, Kenya) The genre of a family epic in Kenyan women’s literature: road of hope or circle of dereliction? The genre of family epic is well-rooted in Kenyan literature — suffice it to recall The broken drum (1988) by David Maillu or Water under the bridge