27.967, Diss: Komo, Language Documentation: Tesfaye Negash Bayou: 'Documentation and Grammatical Description of Komo'

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:17:26
From: Tesfaye Bayou [tesfaye57 at yahoo.com]
Subject: Documentation and Grammatical Description of Komo

 
Institution: Addis Ababa University 
Program: Documentary Linguistics and Culture 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2015 

Author: Tesfaye Negash Bayou

Dissertation Title: Documentation and Grammatical Description of Komo 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Komo (xom)


Dissertation Director(s):
Wondwosen Tesfaye

Dissertation Abstract:

The dissertation has two parts. Part one examines a grammar of Kwom
(''Komo''). Part two provides representative texts from the archived corpora
and word lists. Kwom (''Komo'')  is little known and least studied language in
Ethiopia. It belongs to the Koman language family within the Nilo-Saharan
phylum. It is an endangered language due to people’s movement and contact with
dominant languages.

Extensive fieldworks have been taken place to collect and archive corpus of 30
hours of authentic audio and video recordings of oral genres. 2 hours and 30
minutes of different representative types of audio and video recordings have
been annotated, transcribed, glossed and translated. Over 3687 words have been
documented. The documentation is the base for the language description. The
corpora have been archived at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
The documentation methods are participant observation, elicitation, observed
communicative events, staged communicative events and recordings of oral
genres to achieve the following specific purposes:

 -To record and document linguistic practices of Kwom people.
- To annotate audio & video recordings of speech events with translation and
transcription.
- To document list of words with transcriptions and translations into English.
- To describe the grammar of the language.
- To facilitate accessibility of the work to the Kwom people and interested
researchers.

The grammatical description of the language has three parts: phonetics and
phonology, morphology and syntax. Many issues like acoustic description,
distributions, contrast of suspicious pairs of consonants and vowels, and
tones have been thoroughly discussed. Alphabet of the language has also been
suggested. The language’s noun morphology, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs,
numerals, conjunctions, noun phrases, copula clauses, the negative and
interrogative constructions of nominal clauses, verbs have been described in
detail in the morphology part. Regarding the language’s syntax, declarative
clauses, relative clauses, complex clauses and word order of the language have
been thoroughly dealt.




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