Ngorienne benn
Artist creator: Uta Schneider
Categories: Bookwork / Drawn/Painted Books, Poetry/Proses/Text Works
Reference no.:L/Sc.U/14.00 Place/Shelf:3DR
| Book title: | Ngorienne benn |
| Year made: | 2014 |
| Place made: | Germany |
| Original: | Yes |
| Dimensions: | 155 x 215 |
| Binder: | bound by Uta Schneider |
| Physical description: | stab binding in card wrapper |
| Medium: | graphics, text, |
| Further information: | |
| This work records a conversation in two languages, Wolof and German. Wolof is the main language spoken in Sengal where Uta Schneider did a artist residency. She records in the colophon the significant difference between German (and other European languages) and Wolof. "In Wolof, tenses like present tense, past tense, and future tense are just of secondary importance, they play almost no role. Of crucial importance is the aspect of an action from the speaker's point of view. The most important distinction is whether an action is perfective, i.e., finished, or imperfective, i.e., still going on, from the speaker's point of view, regardless whether the action itself takes place in the past, present, or future. Other aspects indicate whether an action takes place regularly, whether an action will take place for sure, and whether an action wants to emphasize the role of the subject, predicate, or object of the sentence. As a result, conjugation is not done by tenses, but by aspects. Nevertheless, the term temporal pronoun became usual for these conjugated pronouns, although aspect pronoun might be a better term." (this English explanation from wikipedia) |
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| Artist creator: | Uta Schneider () |
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