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Amharic

The Amharic Case File

 

ImageAbout this case file: The AQ response for Amharic has gone through preliminary follow-up elicitation, but no anaphora sketch is written for it yet. The ‘original text’ line is missing for almost all examples, and so each elicitation example has only a morpheme breakdown, the gloss and the translation. Since Amharic has its own alphabet (Ge’ez), it would not be useful to non-Amharic audiences to present either the morpheme breakdown or the original text line in Ge’ez. However, a number of special orthographic forms need to be employed to adequately represent the language in an enhanced Latinate representation, and a guide to these is provided in the beginning of the static AQR (the .pdf). There are missing sections on proxy readings and ellipsis. The elicitation document employed is AQ 2.1, and so some of the additions introduced in AQ 2.2 were not elicited. All the elicited data has been entered into the Anaphora Database.

 

At this writing, we expect aspects of the AQ response to be revised in the future, and thus further entries into the database may be anticipated.
  • Anaphora Questionnaire Response [pdf]
  • Bibliography [pdf] (Compiled by Tajudeen Mamadou Y. in Oct 2020)

(Last updated February, 2012)

 

 

 

 


Lokaa



About This Case File: The AQR for this language remains incomplete, and although fragmentary follow-up work was begun, the data has not been updated since November, 2008. As a result, the data for this language in the Anaphora Database is fragmentary as well, with original text missing, the full range of examples not yet elicited, and further commentary to come, so it should be expected that some of the enhanced search properties may be revised when we get more information. Glossing is not up to our current glossing standards. Use this data with caution. The inclusion of this incomplete data in the Anaphora Database is experimental, insofar as we want to see if it is, or is not, prudent, to integrate partial data with more developed data sets. So far, we have left this data in the database


(Last updated August 2023)

  • Anaphora Questionnaire Response [pdf]






Gungbe



About This Case File: The AQR for Gungbe has gone through follow-up elicitation, but no anaphora sketch is written for it yet. The data has been entered into the Anaphora Database. The ‘original text’ line is missing for almost all examples, and so each elicitation example has only a morpheme breakdown, the gloss and the translation (though Gungbe is an ‘isolating’ language, so the morpheme breakdown line is often close to what would appear on the original text line). A number of special orthographic forms need to be employed to adequately represent the language in an enhanced Latinate representation, and a guide to these will eventually be provided in the beginning of the static AQ response (the .pdf). The elicitation document employed is AQ 2.1, and so some of the additions introduced in AQ 2.2 were not elicited.

 

  • Anaphora Questionnaire Response [pdf]
  • Bibliography [pdf] (Compiled by Tajudeen Mamadou Y. in Oct 2020) 

 

(Last updated, August, 2023)

KiRundi



ImageAbout This Case File: The AQR for this file is in the process of follow-up, but no grammar sketch or anaphora sketch is completed at this time. At present, the AQR and the Anaphora Database entries lack tone marking, glosses have not been updated to our 2011 standards, and the original text line is also missing.


(Last updated August 2023).

  • Anaphora Questionnaire Response [pdf]













Lubukusu



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© Michael R. Marlo

About This Case File: The AQR for this file is not nearly as well glossed nor is it as complete as the database entries for the sentence data. The data entries from that time (around 2010) are not up to current glossing standards and tone is missing throughout. There is an anaphora sketch, however, that is an effective guide to what we found and the analytic information in the Anaphora Portal for Lubukusu includes analysis subsequent to the anaphora sketch. The CCQR lacks a great deal of detail. In some sections there is no morpheme breakdown or gloss, though those are often sentences that are minimally distinct from others that are fully glossed. All of the data entered into the database is fully glossed. Ken Safir, Mark Baker, and Justine Sikuku have all worked together and separately to enhance our data for Lubukusu, so there is much more in the database as a result of research for several papers we have written together. The later data is much more complete, including tone and the original text line. The analytic entities in the Clausal Complementation Portal are relatively rich for Lubukusu and further work continues on these data.

  • Anaphora Questionnaire Response [pdf]
  • Lubukusu Anaphora Sketch [pdf]
  • Clausal Complementation Questionnaire Response [pdf]
  • DP Positions Questionnaire Response [pdf]
  • Tense Aspect Questionnaire Response [pdf ]



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