30.4667, Diss: Language Documentation: Yeshimebet Bogale Endale: ''Documentation and Grammatical Description of Zaysete Language''

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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:46:54
From: Yeshimebet Endale [yeshiemebete at gmail.com]
Subject: Documentation and Grammatical Description of Zaysete Language

 
Institution: Addis Ababa University- Ethiopia 
Program: Regular PhD Program 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2017 

Author: Yeshimebet Bogale Endale

Dissertation Title: Documentation and Grammatical Description of Zaysete
Language 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation


Dissertation Director(s):

Dissertation Abstract:

Abstract:
This study, Documentation and Grammatical Description of Zaysete, deals with
the language of Zayse people which is called in Zaysete. Zaysete is a little
documented East Omotic language spoken by 21,000 native speakers in the
Southern part of Ethiopia. This study has two purposes. The first one is
documentation and the second is grammatical description. The documentation is
used as the base for the grammatical description.

The methods used to collect the data include elicitation, oral texts of
Zaysete, audio and video recordings. The study tried to document different
genres of traditional folks and to make the grammatical description of
Zaysete. In this thesis the phonology, morphology and syntax have been
described. For the purpose of the annotation, all texts are presented in three
line interlinear morpheme by morpheme glosses adopted from Leipzig Glossing
Rules.

In the phonemic inventory 26 consonant and 7 vowel phonemes, and 4 diphthongs
are identified. Both vowel and consonant length is phonemic in Zaysete.
Consonant sequences are allowed only in medial and final positions. Both open
and closed syllable structures are identified. Two types of phonemic tones- H
and L are documented. The tone patterns of nouns, verbs, adjectives and
pronouns are described. The tone system of Zaysete has lexical and grammatical
functional load. Tonological processes are also discussed. The phonological
processes which are identified here are spirantization, vowel nasalization,
homorganic nasal assimilation, aspiration, addition of vowels, metathesis on
loan words, and labialization. Deletion of segments, gliding, and insertion of
/ʔ/ are identified as morphophonemic processes. 
 
Under the morphology part both noun and verb morphologies are treated. The
majority of simple nouns in Zaysete are disyllabic. Monosyllabic and
polysyllabic nouns are also verified.  All nominal (nouns, adjectives and
numerals) show terminal vowels in their citation form. Compounding and
nominalization are processes used to derive nouns from other word classes or
from nouns themselves. Regarding inflections person, number gender and
definiteness are discussed. An in depth investigation of both derivational and
inflectional aspects of verbs are done. Passives, causatives, reciprocals,
frequentatives and Inchoatives are forms of derived verbs In Zaysete.
Grammatical inflections like person, tense, aspect and mood are discussed.
Focus marking is only the characteristics of declarative sentences; however
interrogatives, negatives and prohibitives are not focused. The focus marker
is suffixed before any other grammatical inflections like person, tense;
aspect and mood are suffixed to a verb. Moreover, other lexical categories
like pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, numerals and postpositions
are discussed.

In the syntax part, the word order is described. The most frequent word order
in Zaysete is SOV. The word order is not quite rigid. In Zaysete, declarative,
interrogative, imperative and optative, and negative are distinguished as
sentence types.

The second part of the study deals with the documentation of Zaysete language.
Audio and video data of the language have been documented. The documentation
includes tales, legends,Interviews and children games. Annotation,
transcription, gloss and translation have been done
on ELAN software.




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