The Tigre language of Ginda Eritrea : : short grammar and texts / / by David L. Elias.

• Superior document: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume 75
• VerfasserIn: Elias, David L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 75.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Notes: Thesis (Ph. D., Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)--Harvard University, 2005.; Originally published as "Tigre of Habab : short grammar and texts from the Rigbat people".

In The Tigre Language of Gindaˁ, Eritrea , David L. Elias documents the dialect of the Tigre language that is spoken in the town of Gindaˁ in eastern Eritrea. While the language of Tigre is spoken by perhaps one million people in Eritrea and Sudan, the population of Gindaˁ is fewer than 50,000 people. Elias describes basic aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicography. In contrast to other dialects of Tigre, of which approximately a dozen have been identified, Tigre of Gindaˁ exhibits the only recorded examples in Tigre of gender-specific first person possessives, e.g. ʕənye ‘my eye’ (masc) vs. ʕənče ‘my eye’ (masc/fem), and a new form of the negative of the verb of existence, yahallanni ‘there is not’. Contact with Arabic and Tigrinya has resulted in numerous loanwords and a few biforms in Tigre of Gindaˁ.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / David L. Elias -- 1 Introduction / David L. Elias -- 2 Phonology / David L. Elias -- 3 Morphology—Pronouns, Nouns, and Adjectives / David L. Elias -- 4 Morphology—Verbs / David L. Elias -- 5 Morphology—Adverbs, Prepositions, and Conjunctions / David L. Elias -- 6 Syntax / David L. Elias -- 7 Lexicography and Language Contact / David L. Elias -- Appendices / David L. Elias -- Bibliography / David L. Elias -- Subject Index / David L. Elias.