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Date: 21-Dec-2007
From: Kazuhiro Kawachi < kazuhirokawachi at gmail.com >
Subject: A Grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic Language of Ethiopia

 

	
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From: Kazuhiro Kawachi [kazuhirokawachi at gmail.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic Language of Ethiopia
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Institution: State University of New York at Buffalo 
Program: Department of Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2007 

Author: Kazuhiro Kawachi

Dissertation Title: A Grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic Language of
Ethiopia 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Sidamo (sid)


Dissertation Director(s):
Matthew S. Dryer

Dissertation Abstract:

The present study describes the grammatical structure of Sidaama, a 
Highland East Cushitic language spoken in the south-central part of 
Ethiopia.  Sidaama is spoken by over 1,800,000 people, but there has been 
relatively little research on the language.  

Chapter 1 (introduction) gives background information on the Sidaama 
language and the Sidaama people, briefly reviews previous studies, and 
discusses the methodology used in the present study.  

Chapters 2-5 use basic linguistic theory (Dixon 1997, Dryer 2006) to 
describe the phonology and morphosyntax of Sidaama, and Chapter 6 
examines the event integration patterns (Talmy 1991, 2000b) as one 
property of semantic structuring in this language.

Chapter 2 (phonology) lists the phonemes, the consonant clusters, and the 
geminates, describes suprasegmentals (syllables and moras, pitch accent, 
intonation, and pause), and presents morphophonemic rules.

Chapter 3 (parts of speech) describes characteristics of parts of speech.  
The topics discussed in this chapter include types of nouns and verbs, 
similarities between adjectives and nouns and between adjectives and 
verbs, various pronominal forms, and clitics.

Chapter 4 (morphology) discusses reduplication of verb roots, suprafixes 
on nouns and adjectives, and suffixes on nouns, adjectives, and verbs.  It 
also examines the ordering relationship of the suffixes.  

Chapter 5 (syntax) discusses four topics on the syntax of Sidaama.  The 
first section looks into grammatical relations in terms of how they are 
coded and in what constructions they occur.  The second topic of Chapter 5 
is word order.  The third section of Chapter 5 discusses two types of 
external possessor constructions, the oblique possessum external 
possessor construction and the dative possessor external possessor 
construction.  The fourth section examines the structures of relative clauses 
and the types of elements that can be relativized.

Chapter 6 (semantics) examines the semantic structure of Sidaama, which 
shows characteristics of a verb-framed language, in terms of how it 
expresses different types of events, using Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000b) 
typological framework of event integration.  It investigates how the 
schematic and the non-schematic components of the five types of events 
(motion, state change, realization, temporal contouring, and action 
correlating) appear morphosyntactically in this language. 





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