37.3554, Books: Associated Motion in Gisamjanga-Datooga: Roland Kießling (2026)

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Date: 29-Oct-2026
From: Giada Palmieri [giada.palmieri at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: Associated Motion in Gisamjanga-Datooga: Roland Kießling (2026)


Title: Associated Motion in Gisamjanga-Datooga
Subtitle: A Southern Nilotic Language of Tanzania
Series Title: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783112218921

Author(s): Roland Kießling

Hardcover ISBN: 9783119143851
eBook ISBN: 9783112218921

Abstract:

This monograph provides an empirically based study of the
morphological category of associated motion (AM) in the
under-researched language Datooga (Southern Nilotic). Based on an
outline of essential grammatical structures, it explores the ways the
AM category interacts with the lexical meaning of the verbal root and
with other verbal derivational categories such as directionals. Its
merit resides in the contribution it makes to Nilotic linguistics on
the one side and to the semantics of motion on the other side,
fertilizing current typological debates by spelling out how existing
typological frameworks may be expanded to accommodate the particular
profile of the Datooga case.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Datooga (tcc, dato1239)

Language Family(ies): Southern Nilotic (sout2830)

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)


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