Grammatical Description and Documentation of Majang
| dc.contributor.advisor | Heusing, Gerald (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Anteneh, Getachew | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-11T14:19:08Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T04:35:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-11T14:19:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T04:35:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research aimed at describing and documenting of Majang. Majang is one of the languages in the Nilo-Saharn language phayla, in the Chari-Nile families, under the East Sudanic subdivision in the members of Surmic language group. It is the only representative of North Surmic branch. The speakers of this language are found in three different regional states, namely, Gambella, SNNPR, and Oromia regional state, in the South Western part of Ethiopia. Taking the absence of a former fullfilaged description of the grammer on Majang as impetus, this study gives a descriptive grammar of the language. It deals with the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language. The study used observation, interview, focused group discussion, and text analysis as its major data collection tools. The study focused on elicitation to gather the data required which was supplemented by recordings of day-to-day speech acitivitis. Different linguistic corpuses were collected. Based on the collected data, a dictionary of 1500 basic words is produced, 40 stories, 300 proverbs, and various day-to-day communicative events are compiled and documented, written in Majang orthography, transcribed and translated both in to Amharic and English. The research methodology employed in the work is purely qualitative which is more preferred for linguistic description and documentation. The study employed the basic linguistic theory, which is a descriptive theory. It focuses on describing a language from its own nature, not based on other languages Dryer (2001) and Dixon (2007, 2010). The language documentation theory proposed by Himmelman (1996 and 2011) Woodbury (2003 and 2011) was employed. Both are applied as a basic theoretical framework for the description and documentation respectively. Based on the linguistic corpus from different sources, structural analysis of Majang grammar is presented. Majang has been identified to have 20 consonants and 7 short vowels with length distinction. The morphology of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, adpositions and some other particles have been thoroughly described. The nouns have been found to have more than 10 morphemes for plural marking. Majang word order mainly follows the VSO pattern. There are some SOV or OSV in the day-to-day language uses. The basic phrase and sentence structure of Majang has also been presented with illustrating data frm the corpus collected. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/16341 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | describing and documenting of Majang | en_US |
| dc.subject | languages in the Nilo-Saharn language phayla | en_US |
| dc.title | Grammatical Description and Documentation of Majang | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |