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| Title: | Verb | |
| Chapter-8 | ||
| Documentation and Grammatical Description of Kwom | ||
| Contributor (interviewer): | Tesfaye | |
| Coverage: | Ethiopia | |
| Date: | 2014-05-22 | |
| Description: | Chapter 8 contains discussion of verb root, different verb root for the same kind of act, verb class, subject verb agreement, aspect marking, progressive, negation and moods. Seven root patterns of verbs have been identified in this study. Some Kwom verbs have different verb root for the same kind of act, for example, /ʃá/ ‘eat’ for porridge, sweet potatoes, banana and Injera’; /k̛á/ ‘eat’ for eating meat, roasted or boiled corn and /has̛/ ‘eat’ for sugar cane. Kwom verbs can be classified into two based on their forms. The verbs are classified into four based on the pattern of tone they have. Verbs suffix first, second and third person and object. The verbs suffix the subject marker and the object marker in the order of subject first and then object. The subject and the object can be written independently in a clause. In such cases, the verbs suffix the subject marker only. Verbs show number in two different ways. First, numbers are shown by suffixing 1SG, 1PL, 2SG, 2PL, 3SG and 3PL markers to verbs. Second, some verbs are lexically singular and plural. There are independent singular and plural verbs. Verbs suffix gender and person marker morphemes for agreement. The language distinguishes between perfective and imperfective aspect. Kwom expresses aspect using suffixes and helping verbs. Imperfective aspect consists of the basic form of the verb and its suffixes like person, number and gender marker morphemes. Imperfective aspect is also marked by /mà/ before a verb. Perfective aspect is marked by a bound morpheme /-ké/. Verbs in Kwom suffix more than two morphemes. In addition to perfective and imperfective aspect marker on verbs, Kwom verbs suffix bound morphemes that show aspect. Tone is also used to indicate aspect or direction. When the action is accomplished away from the speaker or accomplished there, the tone becomes high tone and when the action is towards to the speaker or accomplished here, the tone becomes low tone. Imperfective action is formed by adding the helping verb morpheme /ʔu-/ before the root forms of verbs. The morpheme suffixes person, number and gender markers. It expresses imperfective actions. If the actions will be accomplished soon or now, in the very near future, then the helping verb /bəl-/ or /bel-/ is added before the root form of a verb. Kwom expresses progressive action by the auxiliary verb /sòkón/ or /sòkún/ before a main verb. Kwom expresses the contradiction of sentence’s meaning by the presence of three negative marker morpheme, that is /ƥaʃ-/, /ʔek-/ and /ɗú-/. The negative marker morphemes occur before a verb they negate. Any other means of negation is not attested. The negative marker morphemes suffix person, gender and number. In this case, the main verb becomes in its base form. The language uses one negative marker morpheme in a single clause to express negation. Refusal is expressed by the verb /ʔuʃ/ ‘refuse’. In negative imperatives, the negative marker /lək-/ is used to express prohibitions. In Kwom language, like Amharic, the jussive paradigm is used for wishes. /hana/ or /laka/ is morpheme used to indicate jussive in Kwom. | |
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| Identifier: | oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI935373 | |
| IGS0194 | ||
| Identifier (URI): | https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI935373%23 | |
| Publisher: | Tesfaye Negash | |
| Subject: | Verb | |
| Komo (Sudan) language | ||
| Kwom | ||
| English language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | xom | |
| eng | ||
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| Archive: | Endangered Languages Archive | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI935373 | |
| DateStamp: | 2016-09-27 | |
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| Citation: | Tesfaye (interviewer). 2014-05-22. Tesfaye Negash. | |
| Terms: | area_Africa area_Europe country_GB country_SD iso639_eng iso639_xom | |
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| Country: | United KingdomSudan | |
| Area: | AfricaEurope | |