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Title Ama Verbs in Comparative Perspective
Full text https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xd9s935
Date 2020
Author(s) Norton, Russell
Abstract Ama verbs are comparable with Nubian and other related languages in their clause-final syntax, CVC root shape, and some affixes. However, there is also considerable innovation in adjoined relative clauses, a shift from number to aspect marking traced by T/K morphology, and other changes in the order and meaning of affixes. These developments show a unique trend of concretization of core clause constituents, and internal growth in the complexity of verbs in isolation from other languages. On the other hand, Ama's stable distributive pluractional represents a wider Eastern Sudanic category. The late loss of pronominal subject marking supports a hypothesis that the Ama language was used for inter-group communication with Kordofan Nubians.
Subject(s) Ama; Northern East Sudanic; comparative linguistics; Nilo-Saharan; Nyimang; Afitti
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Format application/pdf
Source Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies, vol 7, iss 0
Rights CC-BY-NC
Identifier qt7xd9s935
Repository Berkeley - University of California
Added to C-A: 2023-07-10;10:05:00