Subject marking interrupted
Perturbations from the development of Northern Mao’s future tense suffix
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10793290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Ahland (0000-0001-5433-1989, SIL International, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 58-72 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in African Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3533 • E-ISSN: 2154-428X |
| Publisher | University of Florida George A Smathers Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.32473/sal.v43i2.107264 |
| OpenAlex | W796483964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Northern Mao, an Omotic-Mao language of Ethiopia, exhibits three partially overlapping but distinct subject-marking paradigms in its verbal system: subject prefixes on realis verbs which correspond closely to free pronouns, subject suffixes on irrealis negative non-future verbs which exhibit regular changes from the realis prefixes, and a third, more divergent, subject suffix system on irrealis future verbs which exhibits an [m] form not attested as a person marker elsewhere in the language or extended family. It is argued (from internal evidence) that the irrealis future verbs developed from a periphrastic subordinate + final verb complexes and that the intrusive [m] was, at an earlier stage, part of a subordinating morpheme
Grammaticalization · Linguistics · Morpheme · Past tense · Prefix · Subject (documents · Suffix · Verb · African history and culture analysis · Computer Science · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |