TPub_200204

Object Type: Folder
In Folder: tshwa-pratchett-0398

▲

Expand to show object metadata

TPub_200204

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/e14013c8-fcd4-48cd-a350-1ef0432532b7

Title: The pronominal system of an undocumented Kalahari Khoe language

Description: This bundle includes a journal article published in the first volume of Language in Africa (2020) called: "LANGUAGE CONTACT AND CHANGEIN EASTERN BOTSWANA: NEW INSIGHTS FROM THE PRONOMINAL SYSTEM OF AN UNDOCUMENTED KALAHARI KHOE LANGUAGE".Abstract: This study contributes to the documentation and description of the diversity of Kalahari Khoe languages in eastern Botswana. Kalahari Khoe languages have highly complex pronominal systems with extensive paradigms of portmanteau morphemes encoding person, gender, and number categories. This study focuses on Thabala Tchoe, an entirely undocumented Kalahari Khoe language. Features of the Thabala Tchoe pronominal system set it apart from descriptions of closely and more distantly related languages. In this paper, I offer a formal and functional analysis of these features, which include honorifi c and focus sensitive pronouns, and innovative forms which offer contemporary evidence for the historical development of the complex pronominal system. This analysis is explored against the background of historical contact patterns between different Kalahari Khoe speech communities and Tswana merafe, or ‘clans’, in region.

Date created: Unspecified

Location

Continent: Africa

Country: Botswana

Project

ID: IPF0239

Name: 0398-IPF0239

Description:

Topics

Topic: Pronouns

Topic: Grammaticalisation

Topic: Number

Topic: Focus

Topic: Honorifics

Content

Genre: Academic output

Languages

Actor

Full Name: Lee Pratchett

Role: Researcher

Written Resources

Filename: LiA_1_2_Pratchett.pdf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/7fc009b4-ce1a-4497-b5ef-20182b4d3af5

File type: Document

Access: O

Access Restrictions: The material is licensed under Creative Commons Licences with the licence CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDervis), which means that others may download the material and share them with others as long as they credit the creators. Others cannot change the materials in any way or use the materials commercially.

Show more ▼

Title ▲ ▼

File Format

Access ▲ ▼

LiA_1_2_Pratchett

pdf

O_OpenAccess