28.3961, Books: Lexical Study of Dawuro: Bekele

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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:38:32
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Lexical Study of Dawuro: Bekele

Title: Lexical Study of Dawuro 
Series Title: LINCOM Language Research 10  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LLR-10-Lexical-Study-of-Dawuro/en 

Author: Dawit Bekele

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862888351 Pages: 348 Price: Europe EURO 78.80

Abstract:

This study is concerned with description of lexical items which have roles
since earlier in the political, economic and social activities in the Dawuro
society which is a nationality living in the south-western part of Ethiopia
(east Africa). More than one thousand five hundred lexical items became
gathered during a field stay. They are described being classified into three
major categories as those signifying traditional elements, political issues
and honour. They are further sorted out in terms of their semantic properties
as informative and descriptive. Informative ones are identified as to
providing clues about certain entities in the past, and the descriptive ones
are picked out with respect to meaning contacts they have with referents. Also
the lexical items are grouped concerning their origins as indigenous and
borrowed, and according to their forms as single and compound; besides, the
compound ones are sorted regarding their nature of compounding.

Some linguistic changes have been detected while comparing between earlier and
present uses, and also comparing between the two dialects of the language (ie.
Mes’atsuwa and Gok’atsuwa). Changes in phonological, semantic and
morphological features became recognized in this regard. Phonological changes
are identified comparing forms between the two dialects, yet investigations on
semantic and morphological changes focus in the Mes’atsuwa variant which is
the main dialect of the study.

Different causes for the linguistic changes are also discussed briefly in the
study. Factors such as contact between the dialects, contact with people of
other language speakers, obsolescence of the earlier political system,
attitudinal shift of the society, and introduction of new technological
elements into the current society’s tradition are shown as reasons. It is
suggested after all that such lexical heritages need to be reserved before
they become extinct.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography

Written In: English  (eng)

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