The Tigre language of Ginda Eritrea : short grammar and texts / By David L. Elias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elias, David L.

Series:

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 75.

Studies in semitic languages and linguistics ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tigré language--Grammar.

Tigré language.

Tigré language--Dialects--Eritrea.

Tigrinya (African people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Tigre Language of Gindaˁ, Eritrea , David L. Elias documents the dialect of the Tigre language that is spoken in the town of Gindaˁ in eastern Eritrea. While the language of Tigre is spoken by perhaps one million people in Eritrea and Sudan, the population of Gindaˁ is fewer than 50,000 people. Elias describes basic aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicography. In contrast to other dialects of Tigre, of which approximately a dozen have been identified, Tigre of Gindaˁ exhibits the only recorded examples in Tigre of gender-specific first person possessives, e.g. ʕənye ‘my eye’ (masc) vs. ʕənče ‘my eye’ (masc/fem), and a new form of the negative of the verb of existence, yahallanni ‘there is not’. Contact with Arabic and Tigrinya has resulted in numerous loanwords and a few biforms in Tigre of Gindaˁ.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / David L. Elias

1 Introduction / David L. Elias

2 Phonology / David L. Elias

3 Morphology—Pronouns, Nouns, and Adjectives / David L. Elias

4 Morphology—Verbs / David L. Elias

5 Morphology—Adverbs, Prepositions, and Conjunctions / David L. Elias

6 Syntax / David L. Elias

7 Lexicography and Language Contact / David L. Elias

Appendices / David L. Elias

Bibliography / David L. Elias

Subject Index / David L. Elias.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Thesis (Ph. D., Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)--Harvard University, 2005.

Originally published as "Tigre of Habab : short grammar and texts from the Rigbat people".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004271203

9004271201

OCLC:

881416965

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004271203 DOI