LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2233. Wed May 29 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 30.2233, Books: The Majang Language: Joswig
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Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 12:52:08
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: The Majang Language: Joswig
Title: The Majang Language
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2019
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-majang-language
Author: Andreas Joswig
Paperback: ISBN: 9789460933219 Pages: 542 Price: Europe EURO 45.00
Abstract:
Majang is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Surmic subfamily spoken in Southwest
Ethiopia. This language provides an interesting subject for phonological,
morphosyntactic and pragmatic studies, particularly from a typological
perspective.
Majang is a tonal language with two tones and two different sources of
non-automatic downstep; the tones distinguish meaning both in the lexicon and
in the grammar.
As would be expected from an Eastern-Sudanic Language, Majang features an
intricate number-marking system, where numerous inflectional strategies are
chosen for the different nouns of the lexicon. This number marking interacts
with the case marking of Majang, which is one of the few African languages
with clearly manifested ergative-absolutive structures, balanced by an
alternative system with nominative-absolutive markings; the deciding factor
between the two systems is deeply grounded in the pragmatic context of the
predications. The topicality of constituents not only influences the
case-marking strategies, but has further manifestations in a topicality-based
sentence-final marker and in a syntactic distinction mostly known from Bantu
languages, the conjoint-disjoint distinction.
This language description covers a wide range of topics: sociolinguistics,
phonology, morphology, syntax and pragmatics, supplemented by two
interlinearized texts and two wordlists (Majang-English and English-Majang).
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Language Documentation
Subject Language(s): Majang (mpe)
Written In: English (eng)
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