Salience signaling in Oromo

Clamons, C.R.; Mulkern, Ann E.; Sanders, Gerald A.

doi:10.1016/0378-2166(93)90110-b

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“…The basic word order found in Oromo is head-final in the verbal domain and head-initial in the nominal domain. Surface word order is further determined by discourse factors like topicality and salience (seeClamons et al 1993 for relevant discussion), as evidenced by the word order variation captured in some of the examples in this paper. 5 Namely: Greek, Bulgarian, Buryat, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Romanian, English, Italian, Czech, and Brazilian Portuguese.…”

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Evidence from Oromo on the typology of complementation strategies

Bryant

2021

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This paper explores the clausal complementation strategies found in Oromo (Cushitic). Recent work by Wurmbrand and Lohninger (2019) suggests that languages distinguish three broad semantic categories of complement clauses, which are hierarchically ordered with respect to their syntactic complexity. Based on newly elicited data and examples from the literature, I propose that Oromo complement clauses also show this three-way split, lending support to Wurmbrand and Lohninger’s (2019) proposal. However, the distribution of clausal complement categories appears to diverge somewhat from what has been reported for other languages, suggesting some flexibility in the way certain states and events can be linguistically encoded. Situating Oromo within the typology of clausal complementation thus sheds light on the diversity of ways in which basic semantic building blocks may be incorporated into the expression of complex meanings and speaks to the import of understudied languages to typological research.

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Evidence from Oromo on the typology of complementation strategies

Bryant

2021

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“…Most importantly, these nominalizations can function as sentential subjects, in which case they are marked with nominative case, as in (9) above. While Oromo lacks definite determiners, 7 nominative case marking is compatible only with definite subjects, i.e., subjects the referents of which are discourse familiar, or else uniquely identifiable in the context of utterance (Hodson & Walker 1922;Owens 1985;Kebede 1989;Clamons, Mulkern & Sanders 1993). Hence, examples like (9) show that verbal nominalizations with subjects are definite DPs.…”

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Situation types in complementation: Oromo attitude predication

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Bhadra

2021

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Though languages show rich variation in the clausal embedding strategies employed in attitude reports, most mainstream formal semantic theories of attitudes assume that the clausal complement of an attitude verb contributes at least a proposition to the semantics. The goal of this paper is to contribute to the growing cross-linguistic perspective of attitudes by providing semantic analyses for the two embedding strategies found with attitude verbs in Oromo (Cushitic): verbal nominalization, and embedding under akka 'as'. We argue that Oromo exemplifies a system in which non-speech attitudes uniformly embed situations rather than propositions, thereby expanding the empirical landscape of attitude reports in two ways: (i) situations and propositions are both ontological primitives used by languages in the construction of attitude reports, and (ii) attitude verbs in languages like Oromo do the semantic heavy lifting, contributing the "proposition" to propositional attitudes.

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“…Die Protagonistin ist Topik und psychologisches Subjekt des Targetsatzes -Paul (1995) 2 folgend also "[...] das, worüber der Sprechende den Hörenden denken lassen, worauf er seine Aufmerksamkeit hinleiten will [...]". Damit beschreibt schon Paul das, was von Clamons et al (1993) und Mulkern (2007) Aus den oben genannten Erläuterungen ergibt sich, dass (i) ausschließlich Diskursagentinnen kapable potenzielle Perspektiventräger darstellen und (ii) Diskursagentinnen die Eigenschaft besitzen, Einstellungsträger zu sein. 3 Unter Berücksichtigung der Anmerkungen über Diskursagentinnen als (einzig mögliche) potenzielle Zentren der Perspektive soll zuletzt ein Erklärungsangebot für die Selektion der Protagonistin als präferiertes Zentrum der Perspektive gemacht werden, das auf eben diese Differenz zwischen der Instanz des Sprechers (so, wie sie in Experiment 3, vgl.…”

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Perspektivierung im Text -- Interpretation und Verarbeitung

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Language possesses the capacity to express many different perspectives. As a general principle, the interpreter takes the speaker of an utterance to be the perspective-holder of the content that it conveys. This presumption of a speaker-default (Potts, 2005) seems to be a valid strategy as it frequently results in adequate interpretations. However, productive exceptions to this rule exist, as demonstrated in (1). Although the object pronoun me picks out the speaker, the perspective-sensitive content of friggin' seems to anchor to Monty as its perspective-holder.(1) [Context: We know that Bob loves to do yard work and is very proud of his lawn, but also that he has a son Monty who hates to do yard chores. So Bob could say (perhaps in response to his partner's suggestion that Monty be asked to mow the lawn while he is away on business):] Well, in fact Monty said to me this very morning that he hates to mow the friggin' lawn. 1factors (e. g., free indirect discourse, attitude verbs, counteridenticals). The experiments employ off-line as well as on-line methods; hence, the presented data offer evidence both on the final interpretation and the processing of texts involving perspective-sensitive expressions.The thesis presents empirical evidence of perspective-sensitive expressions and their interaction with information offered by the context, and such evidence is highly necessary. This dissertation enhances the understanding of the guiding mechanisms involved in perspective-dependent interpretations. It also contributes relevant data for the soughtafter long-term goal of a formal representation of the class of perspective-sensitive expressions. Therefore, the presented multi-faceted experimental data and the conclusions drawn based on these findings provide significant contributions for future research on linguistically expressed perspectivization.

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Salience signaling in Oromo

Cited by 13 publications

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Evidence from Oromo on the typology of complementation strategies

Evidence from Oromo on the typology of complementation strategies

Situation types in complementation: Oromo attitude predication

Perspektivierung im Text -- Interpretation und Verarbeitung

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