Papers In Honour Of R. C. Abraham (1890-1963) (african Languages And Cultures. Supplement)

- This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. - Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. BOOK COVER......Page 1 HALF-TITLE......Page 2 TITLE......Page 4 COPYRIGHT......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 PREFACE......Page 8 ROY CLIVE ABRAHAM: A BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE AND LIST OF WRITINGS......Page 10 REFERENCES......Page 11 1. Introduction and background......Page 13 2. Stress and tone in Amharic......Page 15 3. The analysis of the verb in Amharic......Page 17 REFERENCES......Page 19 2. ‘Amharic is a tone language...’......Page 21 3. Abraham’s ‘inverted tones’......Page 23 4. An analysis......Page 28 REFERENCES......Page 32 1. Introduction......Page 33 2. Abraham: the tour......Page 34 3. Abraham and Bolanci......Page 36 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 37 HAUSA ORTHOGRAPHY AND ABRAHAM’S TRANSCRIPTION......Page 39 REFERENCES......Page 42 A NOTE ON HAUSA LITERATURE AND R.C.ABRAHAM......Page 43 REFERENCES......Page 48 1. Introduction......Page 49 2. The pre-indirect object D-forms within the Hausa ‘Verb Grade’ system......Page 50 3.1. Recent analyses......Page 52 3.2. Abraham on Grades 2 and 3 final and -aa D-forms......Page 55 4. Use of the Grade 4 final -ee extension as a D-form before indirect objects......Page 56 4.2. Abraham on the Separative ‘motion away from’ semantics of Grade 4 verbs......Page 57 REFERENCES......Page 62 1. Introduction......Page 64 2. The analytical/synchronic problem......Page 65 3. The etymological/historical problem......Page 69 REFERENCES......Page 71 1. Introduction......Page 73 2. Dictionary typology......Page 75 3. Transcription......Page 76 4. Alphabetisation of glottalised consonants......Page 77 5. Headwords and verbal derivatives......Page 78 6. Lexical equivalence and collocational information......Page 79 7. Illustrative material......Page 82 8. Synonyms......Page 83 9. English translations of examples......Page 84 10. Encyclopedic vs. strictly linguistic knowledge......Page 85 11. Conclusion......Page 86 REFERENCES......Page 87 2. Abraham’s predecessors in Somali lexicography......Page 89 3. Abraham’s language informants......Page 90 5. A digression on the selection of the verbal lemma in Somali......Page 91 7. An assessment of the ‘Somali-English Dictionary’......Page 92 8. Delay in publication......Page 93 9. Somali lexicography since 1966......Page 94 10. A postscript: some general observations......Page 95 REFERENCES......Page 96 1. Introduction......Page 98 2. Tone......Page 100 3. Derivational affixes......Page 102 4. Information structure......Page 104 REFERENCES......Page 108 2. A brief history of the study of Idoma......Page 110 3. R.C.Abraham and Idoma......Page 111 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 113 1. R.C.Abraham’s Igbo materials and the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan......Page 114 2. R.C.Abraham and Mr Dagogo Alagoma......Page 119 3. The results of the work of R.C.Abraham and Dagogo Alagoma......Page 120 REFERENCES......Page 122 R.C.ABRAHAM’S BOOKS ON TIV......Page 123 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 126 1. Abraham and his approach to the Tiv ethnography......Page 127 2. Abraham and the Tiv......Page 128 3. Abraham and the Tiv performance arts......Page 130 4. Abraham and Tiv songs......Page 131 6. Contemporary drama/use of proverbs in drama......Page 132 7. Abraham, storytelling and drama......Page 133 8. ‘A Close Shave’ by Chris Kyoive......Page 135 REFERENCES......Page 138 1. Introduction......Page 139 2. Early works on Tiv......Page 140 3. Abraham and Tiv studies......Page 141 4. The Tiv grammarians......Page 143 6. Some comments on Tivoid......Page 144 REFERENCES......Page 145 1. Introduction......Page 148 1.2. Tone and vowel length......Page 149 2.1. Tone-marking in Yoruba orthography......Page 150 2.5. The use of an/ọn......Page 151 3.1. Nominalisation......Page 152 3.3. Deletion, assimilation and Yoruba writing......Page 153 3.4. The sound ‘u’......Page 154 3.5. Desuetude of morphosyntactic vowel harmony......Page 155 5. Conclusion......Page 156 REFERENCES......Page 157 2. Abraham’s description of the ‘magnetised tone’......Page 158 3.2. Environment for the ‘magnetised tone’......Page 160 4.1. Standard Yorùbá forms......Page 161 5.1. The data......Page 162 5.2. An alternative explanation......Page 163 6. Conclusion......Page 164 REFERENCES......Page 165 FOND RECOLLECTIONS OF ROY......Page 166 REFERENCES......Page 170 In the course of a perusal of the first few pages of R.C. Abraham's Principles of Amharic (hereafter referred to simply as Principles), we encounter an arresting claim to the effect that Amharic is a 'tone language'.

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