Documentation And Description Of Tense Aspect And Mood In Gwama

This thesis deals with the documentation and description of TAM (tense,rnaspect and mood) in Gwama, a Koman (Nilo-Saharan) language ofrnsouthwestern Ethiopia. It has two parts. In the first part, after anrnintroductory section on phonology and transcription, I survey first thernpronouns, then the TAM categories, morphemes and constructions of thernlanguage. Since Gwama apparently is an aspect language, "tense" will notrnplay any role in the thesis (thus "TAM" should really be "AM"). Therndifferent TAM categories are expressed formally by affixes, reduplication,rnand distinct series of pronouns. Much is still unclear, and the presentrndescription sometimes differs significantly from the two earlier sketchrngrammars. The second part of the thesis presents an analysis of digitallyrnrecorded and annotated texts as primary linguistic data, accompanied byrnthe actual CD.

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