Focus in Oromo

Yimam, Baye

doi:10.32473/sal.v19i3.107460

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“…The context of the study: Oromo and its varieties Oromo is a Lowland East Cushitic language. It is widely spoken in Ethiopia, but there are also Oromo speaking communities in Kenya and Somalia (see Clamons 1993;Clamons 1992;Olani 2017;Yimam 1986). The present study focuses only on the Oromo dialects that are spoken in Ethiopia.…”

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Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*

Feleke

Lohndal

2023

Studia Linguistica

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This study aims to (1) demonstrate the position of the Oromo gender system in Corbett's (1991) typology of gender; (2) illustrate major syntactic gender variation across the Oromo dialects; (3) identify factors that contributed to the gender variation, and (4) illustrate the morphosyntax of the Oromo gender system. The data obtained from the Oromo Speech Corpus shows a high degree of lexical and syntactic variation between the Western‐Northern dialects on the one hand, and the Eastern‐Southern dialects on the other hand. The Western and Northern dialects have shifted from the historically Cushitic phonology‐based gender assignment pattern to the semantic‐based assignment pattern. This shift has resulted in a widespread neutralization of feminine gender markers. The contact between Oromo and the neighboring non‐Cushitic languages contributed to these changes. The study also argues that Kramer's (2015) morphosyntactic approach can be extended to the analysis of Oromo gender system.

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Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*

Feleke

Lohndal

2023

Studia Linguistica

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Salience signaling in Oromo

Clamons¹,

Mulkern²,

Sanders³

1993

Journal of Pragmatics

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Diagnosing focus

Wal

2016

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Many tests have been used in eliciting focus constructions and determining what type of focus a certain linguistic strategy expresses. This paper provides an overview of the various diagnostics for focus, indicating how they show the size of the focused constituent and what semantic-pragmatic type of focus is expressed. These types range from simple pragmatic focus to semantically more complex focus, signalling exclusivity or exhaustivity either as an inherent semantic part of the focus, or merely an implicature. The discussion of these diagnostics brings to light how some diagnostics are flawed, and whether the linguistic strategy tested is actually a dedicated strategy for focus at all.

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Focus in Oromo

Cited by 7 publications

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Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*

Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*

Salience signaling in Oromo

Diagnosing focus

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