Harari
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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Harari; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.3 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: limited information
- Current bibliographic coverage: incomplete
- Total references: 2
- Last updated: December 2022, based on dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.3.3
Summary
Harari, like some other Ethiopian Semitic languages, has a suffix -ma likely grammaticalized from a coordinator (compare Akkadian), that combines with verbs to form converbs and multi-verb constructions. Relevantly, given the SOV word order of Ethiopian Semitic languages due to contact with other local languages, in the resulting pseudocoordination constructions it is the second verb that takes on the auxiliary-like function
References
Leslau, Wolf. 1970. The ma-Clause in Harari. In David Cohen (ed.), Mélanges Marcel Cohen: Etudes de linguistique, ethnographie et sciences connexes offertes par ses amis et ses élèves à l’occasion de son 80 ème anniversaire: Avec des articles et études inédits de Marcel Cohen, 263–273. The Hague & Paris: Mouton.
Ross, Daniel. 2021. Pseudocoordination, Serial Verb Constructions and Multi-Verb Predicates: The relationship between form and structure. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. dissertation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5546425 [Section 2.2.3.3]