28.3867, Books: Ateso Grammar: Barasa
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:31:33
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Ateso Grammar: Barasa
Title: Ateso Grammar
Subtitle: A Descriptive Account of an Eastern Nilotic Language
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 94
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom-shop.eu
Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LSAL-94-Ateso-Grammar/en
Author: David Barasa
Hardback: ISBN: 9783862888337 Pages: 247 Price: Europe EURO 140
Abstract:
This book discusses the structure of Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic language. The
book provides the first comprehensive description of the phonology, morphology
and syntax of the language.
The key feature of Ateso’s phonological structure is that vowel alternation
strategies are constrained by three harmony rules: root-control,
feature-control, and, finally, mid-vowel assimilation. While Ateso shares this
structure with the other Eastern Nilotic languages, it has its unique features
as well. For example, while the other members of the Eastern Nilotic family
have lost the vowel */ä/, Ateso has retained it phonetically.
Ateso’s noun morphology has noun-inflectional affixes associated with gender-
and number marking. The language employs noun prefixes for gender and uses
suffixes to express number and to derive words from others. With regard to its
verbal morphology, Ateso verb forms are inflected for a variety of functions.
Inflectional categories such as person, number, tense, aspect and mood are
marked on the verb either segmentally or supra-segmentally. Tense is expressed
supra-segmentally by tone on the nucleus of verb roots, while different
morphemes mark person, number, aspect and mood. The discussion of Ateso verb
morphology covers verbal derivations and extensions; namely, causatives,
ventives, itives, datives, iterative, passives and instrumentals.
Regarding its syntactic structure, as a VS/VO language, Ateso allows for a
complete clause made up of an inflected verb only, or an inflected verb
followed by one or two NPs/or an NP and a pronoun. The language can also have
sentence structures involving strategies such as coordination, subordination
and clause chaining.
David Barasa has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cape Town, and is
a graduate of the University of Nairobi and Masinde Muliro University of
Science and Technology. His research is on the fields of Linguistics, with
special reference to language documentation, phonology, morphology, language
policy analysis, language contact and variation, and multilingualism.
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
Subject Language(s): Teso (teo)
Written In: English (eng)
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