11 марта в 16:00 в конференц-зале ИЯз РАН в рамках семинара по языкам Тропической Африки состоится доклад Андаргачеу Г. Гебейеху (Университет Гондара, НИУ ВШЭ) на тему "The verbal system of Gwama".

       Для участия в дистанционном формате и получения ссылки на зум-конференцию просим обращаться к Надежде Владимировне Макеевой.

       Abstract

       This study describes ‘The Verbal System of Gwama’, a language of the Koman group spoken in Beni-Shangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia. The basic forms of verb morphology that include structure of verbs, person agreement markers, reduplication process, aspect, mood and negation are presented and analyzed.

       Data was collected from native Gwama speaking informants during fieldwork in the rural villages of Mao-Komo and in Asosa. It thus shows that the language has agglutinative morphology in which verb roots take inflectional affixes. These are verbal extensions that either increase or decrease valence. For example, causatives are formed by the morpheme i-, passive structures are expressed by the morpheme b-, and reciprocal structures take the verb dena ‘meet’.

       What is more, the Gwama verbs are inflected for person, aspect, and mood. The subject agreement morphemes are ni？ 1SG, ɡi 2SG, ni？ 3MSG, a 3FSG, mi？ 1PL(EXCL), ni？ 1PL(INCL), mi？ 2PL, and bi 3PL, of which the 1SG, 3MSG, and 1PL(INCL) differ in tone. It also employs different inflectional strategies to distinguish perfective, imperfective, progressive and inceptive aspects.