Documentation and Description of Tense, Aspect and Mood in Gwama
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2013-11
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Addis Ababa University
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This thesis deals with the documentation and description of TAM (tense,
aspect and mood) in Gwama, a Koman (Nilo-Saharan) language of
southwestern Ethiopia. It has two parts. In the first part, after an
introductory section on phonology and transcription, I survey first the
pronouns, then the TAM categories, morphemes and constructions of the
language. Since Gwama apparently is an aspect language, "tense" will not
play any role in the thesis (thus "TAM" should really be "AM"). The
different TAM categories are expressed formally by affixes, reduplication,
and distinct series of pronouns. Much is still unclear, and the present
description sometimes differs significantly from the two earlier sketch
grammars. The second part of the thesis presents an analysis of digitally
recorded and annotated texts as primary linguistic data, accompanied by
the actual CD.
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