Subject marking interrupted: Perturbations from the development of Northern Mao’s future tense suffix

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...

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Autor principal:	Michael Ahland
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2014
Materias:	Mao Omotic subject agreement realis irrealis Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9c1221d394854e18ac5bedbe976c5b372021-11-19T03:52:25ZSubject marking interrupted: Perturbations from the development of Northern Mao’s future tense suffix10.32473/sal.v43i2.1072640039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/9c1221d394854e18ac5bedbe976c5b372014-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107264https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XNorthern 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.Michael AhlandLibraryPress@UFarticleMaoOmoticsubject agreementrealisirrealisPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 43, Iss 2 (2014)
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spellingShingle	Mao Omotic subject agreement realis irrealis Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Michael Ahland Subject marking interrupted: Perturbations from the development of Northern Mao’s future tense suffix
description	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.
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title	Subject marking interrupted: Perturbations from the development of Northern Mao’s future tense suffix
title_short	Subject marking interrupted: Perturbations from the development of Northern Mao’s future tense suffix
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Subject marking interrupted: Perturbations from the development of Northern Mao’s future tense suffix

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