Documentation And Grammatical Description Of Kole

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The present study deals with Kole language and its purpose is two-fold. The first one isrnproviding a detailed description of the Kole language, while the second one is documenting thernlanguage. The documentation is used as the base for the grammatical description ofKole.rnKole is an endangered Omotic language spoken in the Southern Nations, Nationalities andrnPeoples Regional State in southern Ethiopia. The methods used to collect the data include grouprndiscussion, elicitation, audio and video recordings. The study tried to document different genresrnof traditional folks and to make the grammatical description of Kole by focusing on thernlanguage's own features.rnKole has twenty seven phonemes and five vowels with their long counterparts. Consonantrngemination and vowel lengthening are phonemic in the language. The syllable structure of Kolerncan be captured by the following general formula: C1V (V) (CO-2), where CO-2 shows the range ofrncoda. In addition to this, Kole is a tone-accent language in which high tone occurs only once persimplernword.rnKole is an interesting language from morphological perspectives. The overwhelming majority ofrnsimple nouns in Kole language are disyllabic. Monosyllabic nouns are not attested. Mostrnpolysyllabic nouns that are nouns with three or more syllables are attested to be polymorphemicrnas well. All nominals (nouns, adjectives and numerals) show terminal (root-final) vowels in theirrncitation form. Besides, the Kole language shows an intricate system of focus marking thatrnaffects the morpho-syntactic properties and categorization of a verb. Following the focusrnmarker, other grammatical inflections like person, ~ense, aspect and mood are suffixed to a verb.rnThe language distinguishes between the singular and plural number values. While verbs involvernone ofthe mood markers, pronouns and demonstratives necessarily take case suffixes in order tornoccur as phonological words. Pronouns and demonstratives can also occur as proclitics to otherrnwords. An elaborated system of mood and modality is also observed in Kole language.Regarding syntax, the most frequent word order in Kole language is SOY. The word order is notrnquite rigid. As has been observed from wide variety of SO V languages, Subject-Object inversionrnand other phenomena frequently lead to the separation of verb from the object noun phrase,rnwhich leads inevitably to the question of wheth~r a verb phrase exists in Kole language orrnwhether it is a non-configurational language with the rule S~ NP V. A postpositional phrase inrnthis language is a phrase that contains a postpositional element preceded by a noun phrase orrnanother postpositional phrase complement. Unlike other phrases, the head postposition cannotrnstand alone as a postpositional phrase; it rather needs an obligatory complement. In Kole, fourrnformallstructurall categories or sentence types are distinguished: these are declarative,rninterrogative, imperative and optative sentence types. In the description of complex sentencerntypes such as relative clause, complement clauses, adverbial clauses, quotaive clauses, converb,rnswitch reference and co-ordinations are identified with their illustrative examples.rnThe second part of the study deals with the documentation of Ko Ie language. Audio and videorndata of the language have been documented. The documentation includes tales, legend,rninterviews and language game. Annotation, transcription, gloss and translation have been donernon ELAN software .

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